Suddenly Miss Hubbard spots the sunshine coming in through the stained glass window. A breeze has blown the fog away, so now Pat and Jess can deliver the post without any trouble at all. As they drive along in the van, they spot the scarecrow again. Pat reckons that he is still waiting for a letter.
Postman Pat Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Postman Pat's Foggy Day. Edit source History Talk 2.
Categories Episodes Season 1 episodes Add category. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. Postman Pat's Windy Day. Return to Book Page. Ivor Wood. Wherever he goes, Pat's friends offer him delicious things to eat. Soon he won't be able to button up his suit. Get A Copy. Hardcover , 32 pages. More Details Original Title.
Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Postman Pat Gets Fat , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3.
Rating details. Sort order. Start your review of Postman Pat Gets Fat. And John Cunliffe has been left behind, removed to the side-lines, from where he has watched in sadness as his characters have been exploited and Greendale has succumbed to the commercialisation that swallows just about everything. John Cunliffe had never expected to be rich or famous. Even though he had succeeded in publishing several little stories about Farmer Barnes, he had never earned any real money from it and simply enjoyed it for the pleasure it gave him.
But from the beginning, he was excited about Postman Pat. He had actually been asked to write it by the BBC who had told him to come up with a series set in the countryside and, within two minutes of being asked, he had thought of the idea. When he showed them his 13 stories, the BBC said they liked them and, several months later, when they showed them to the best animator in the country, Ivor Wood, he said he liked them, too.
Wood visited Cunliffe in the Lake District and toured the hills, soaking up locations and shooting off a roll of pictures of one particularly amiable postman whom they found up a lonely valley running errands for his customers.
Now he agreed to turn the stories into minute films for the BBC. And when he told Cunliffe that he needed to buy the rights to his creation before he could sink all this money into the production, Cunliffe thought that was sensible enough. No one could take that away from him. At least, that was what he thought then.
Postman Pat was a big success. The BBC repeated the films in the spring of and then again in the autumn. Terry Wogan started playing the theme tune on his radio programme and it ended up in the charts.
The films were repeated yet again, twice a year, becoming a new ritual of childhood. He had signed away his rights. He got nothing for the films when they were repeated over and over again. He was earning a handsome living. And when he wrote more books, he was happy enough to give 50 per cent of the royalties to Ivor Wood.
That was what the contract said. The thing that first worried John Cunliffe was that other writers were now turning out Pat stories and they seemed to be changing him. Cunliffe knew people who had adopted that as a family saying. It was only silly, he knew, but it was one of the little touches that made Pat a comfort to people. And then one day, he walked into a book shop and found a whole book about Pat that set his teeth right on edge. It was so badly written. It made him feel quite awkward that people might think he had written it.
And in one story, Pat did something particularly stupid. The radiator in his little red van boiled over, and he hopped straight out and pulled the radiator cap off.
Cunliffe was sure he would never have let Pat do anything so silly. He felt so upset that he wrote off a letter, asking how this could happen. Apart from anything else, Cunliffe was under the impression that he was supposed to be the only author of books about Pat. It turned out that this was not a book, because it was printed on card instead of paper. He still wrote new stories from time to time and had them published by Scholastic, who had taken over from Andre Deutsch and, once or twice, he even contributed to a merchandising book.
John Cunliffe watched in wonder as the great supremos gave Ivor Wood his Gold Cassette and told everyone how marvellous it was that Ivor had created Postman Pat.
0コメント