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本和霍利的小王国 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

(2013-03-11 21:30:56)
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本和霍利的小王国 <wbr>Ben <wbr>and <wbr>Holly's <wbr>Little <wbr>Kingdom本和霍利的小王国 <wbr>Ben <wbr>and <wbr>Holly's <wbr>Little <wbr>Kingdom本和霍利的小王国 <wbr>Ben <wbr>and <wbr>Holly's <wbr>Little <wbr>Kingdom本和霍利的小王国 <wbr>Ben <wbr>and <wbr>Holly's <wbr>Little <wbr>Kingdom

    Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom 是Nick Jr. 的一套优秀儿童动画节目。

    Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom曾在2009年获得英国电影和电视艺术学院年度儿童娱乐领域最佳学龄前动画学院奖。英国电影和电视艺术学院(The British Academy of Film and Television Arts,简称BAFTA)每年颁发学院奖,旨在奖励电影、电视、儿童影视和互动媒体领域的优秀之作。

    Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom讲述的是小精灵elves、仙女fairies和昆虫insects的故事。男主人公Ben是个8岁的可爱的小精灵,他的好朋友Holly也是8岁,是个专横又可爱的仙女公主。正如其名,这部动画片主要讲述的就是小精灵Ben和小仙女Holly这两个朋友之间的日常生活场景。Holly是个小仙女,手持魔法棒,会变魔法。不过,她的魔法非常一般,经常失灵,想变的东西出不来,不想变的倒出来了,非常有意思。Ben是个小精灵,他没有Holly的魔法,不过他有的是聪明才智,许多Holly解决不了的问题,基本都是Ben用他的小脑袋想出来的。故事中除了Ben和Holy,出台最多的要算Little Kingdom里面的“国王King”,他是Holly, Daisy, and Poppy的爸爸;还有“王后Queen”,她是Holly, Daisy, and Poppy的妈妈。还有Ben Elf的父母Mr Elf and Mrs Elf.

 

    对于看过Peppa Pig的小朋友,接触到Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom,会有似曾相识的感觉。因为里面的配音演员,大都是同一班人马。Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom的制作公司是伦敦的 Astley Baker Davies, 就是制作Peppa Pig的那个公司。Astley Baker Davies制作的还有一部动画,是Big Knights。

 

Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (called Little Kingdom in the US on Nick Junior) is a

British animated pre-school children's television series set in an enchanted magical

kingdom with fairies, elves and insects.

Ben is a loveable little elf while his best friend Holly is a bossy but loveable fairy princess.

The show is created by Neville Astley and Mark Baker, and produced by Phil Davies at Astley Baker Davies - the company responsible for Peppa Pig. Many of the actors who lend their vocal skills to characters in Peppa Pig also work on Little Kingdom. These include John Sparkes, Sarah Ann Kennedy, David Rintoul and David Graham.

Astley Baker Davies is an animation studio based in London, England, owned by founder-directors Neville Astley, Mark Baker, and Phil Davies. It is the production company behind television series The Big Knights, Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom.
 

二、 主要角色

  下面我们了解一下里面的主要角色(Characters)。

Ben Elf:
Ben is an elf and one of the main characters alongside Princess Holly. His parents are Mr

& Mrs Elf. He lives with mummy and daddy. He lives in the Great Elf Tree, number 4. Ben

wears a blue shirt, a blue pair of shorts and blue triangular hat with an oak leaf

sticking out. Ben is a young Elf. He has many friends, and his best friend is princess

Holly. Ben is 8 years old.

2 Princess Holly:
Holly is a fairy and one of the main characters alongside Ben Elf. She lives with mummy,

daddy and little sisters. She likes to use magic despite the risk of things going wrong.

Her best friend is Ben Elf and her parents are King and Queen Thistle. She wears a pink

dress and has small crown. Holly is 8 years old like her best friend Ben.

3.King Thistle:
King Thistle is the King in the Little Kingdom. He is Princess Holly, Daisy, and Poppy's

daddy. He is often hungry and grumpy, finds other elves and fairies annoying and boring,

and sometimes hates having a bath. He wears a brown shirt and has dark yellow crown.
4.Queen Thistle:
Queen Thistle is the Queen in the Little Kingdom and the wife of King Thistle. She is

Princess Holly, Daisy, and Poppy's mummy. Queen Thistle does not appear as often as

Holly, but she is very responsible and she is not angry most of the time. She wears a

torquise dress and has a shiny crown.

5. Daisy and Poppy:
Holly's cheeky, baby twin sisters. They're not very good at magic but that doesn't stop

them from trying! They are quite cheeky and usually end up causing trouble with magic.

Daisy wears a yellow dress while Poppy wears a red dress. As Daisy and poppy are very

naughty, Holly sometimes dislike her sisters.
 Daisy and Poppy are voiced by Zoe Baker.

 

6.Nanny Plum:
Nanny Plum is Holly, Daisy and Poppy's nanny and 'teacher', and a general housekeeper for

the King and Queen. She is very good at magic and capable of speaking many animal

languages (inluding ones which she claims to be a bit difficult such as Mole, Aardvark,

Ant, Centipede and Alien). She often ends up into all kinds of trouble which she was

trying to prevent Holly and friends from getting into. She is also a tooth fairy. She

wears a purple dress and has black hair. Although being quite bossy, she is very good at

cleaning with magic. She rivals the Wise Old Elf.
 Nanny Plum is voiced by Sarah Ann Kennedy.


7. Wise Old Elf:
An elf that lives in the same tree as Ben at the top in room 98. He also is the Wise Old

Tailor and librarian. He also runs the Elf School and The Elf factory. His hat contains a

maple leaf. He rivals Nanny Plum and strongly disapproves of magic. Sometimes he dislikes

fairies and only agrees in elf work and doings.
 The Wise Old Elf is voiced by David Graham.
8. Mr Elf:
Mr Elf is Ben Elf's dad. His job is to deliver items to various places such as food to

the castle as well as working for the elf farm. Mrs Elf complains he always works too

hard. He likes all fairies. He is often grumpy.
 Mr Elf is voiced by John Sparkes.
9. Mrs Elf:
Mrs Elf is Ben Elf's mum. She has a lily leaf and a flower in her hat.
 Mrs Elf is voiced by Judy Flynn.

 

三、目录

目前,Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom制作了两季。

第一季52集,第二季出了23集,或依然在制作中。

 

Season 1 (2009 - 2010)

Episode Number

Title

1

"The Royal Fairy Picnic (Volume 1)"

Holly invites Ben to the annual royal fairy picnic. King Thistle hopes there won't be a repeat of last year's jelly flood...

2

"Gaston the Ladybird"

The team try to cheer up their friend Gaston by tidying his cave, but do not realise that he likes it the way it is.

3

"Holly's Magic Wand"

When Holly loses her magic wand, she is very sad, so Ben uses his elf skills to find it.

4

"The Elf Farm"

The team visits the elf farm to collect an egg for King Thistles breakfast, but while they're in there, an enormous chicken escapes and runs.

5

"Daisy and Poppy"

Holly's sisters borrow Fleur's magic wand, escape from the castle and turn the whole kingdom into rabbits, frogs and birds.

6

"Queen Thistle's Teapot"

Holly accidentally breaks her mother's new teapot, and Ben tries to help her repair it.

7

"The Frog Prince"

Holly accidentally turns Ben into a frog, and makes things worse as she tries to rectify her mistake.

8

"The King's Busy Day"

Holly's father struggles to cope during a busy day, in which he has to launch a boat, judge a fruit and vegetable competition and make a speech at a dance festival.

9

"Fun and Games"

Ben and Holly play games whilst waiting for some cupcakes to be made.

10

"King Thistle Is Not Well"

Holly's father gets a cold, so Holly and her friend Ben and general housekeeper Nanny Plum collect the ingredients for a magic potion to make him better.

11

"The Lost Egg"

The friends try to reunite a chick with its mother.

12

"The Elf Games"

Ben is in training for the elf games. Holly wants to join in but the rules state there's no flying or magic allowed.

13

"Nanny Plum's Lesson"

Nanny Plum teaches the girls some important fairy rules. However, when she is accidentally blown away by a strong wind, Ben, Holly, Violet, Strawberry and Gaston must come to her rescue.

14

"The Elf Factory (Volume 2)"

It's almost Christmas and the elves are busy making toys. When there is a problem with the toys, a little bit of magic is needed to save the day.

15

"Mrs Witch"

Nanny takes Ben and Holly to visit a witch in the forest. When Nanny is rude to the witch, she gets frozen by magic. Will King Thistle save the day?

16

"Elf Joke Day"

It's "Elf Joke Day" and Holly, Ben and the Wise Old Elf play a trick on Nanny Plum. However, she doesn't see the funny side, and gets her revenge by turning the Wise Old Elf into a snail!

17

"King Thistle's New Clothes"

King and Queen Marigold are coming to visit, but Nanny accidentally shrinks all his clothes, burns them to ash - and has to magic some more using vegetables from the kitchen.

18

"Elf School"

The Wise Old Elf tells Holly and Ben that no magic should be used at Elf school. Holly finds it difficult to get by until Nanny uses magic to help her.

19

"The Royal Golf Course"

A mole disturbs King Thistle's golf course, so a gnome is enlisted to help drive it away. Soon the gnome is ordering the elves around, turning the golf course into a crazy golf course!

20

"Morning, Noon and Night"

The Wise Old Elf teaches the children how to tell the time, and takes Ben and Holly to see the big clock at the top of the Elf Tree.

21

"Gaston's Visit"

Gaston catches a cold, so Holly invites him to stay at the castle while his old home is being repaired to due a leak in the roof.

22

"A Trip to the Seaside"

On a family trip to the seaside, the duo get trapped by the tide.

23

"Ben's Birthday Card"

Holly forgets Ben's birthday and rushes home to make him a birthday card. Nanny has stopped all magic, so Holly has to make the card herself.

24

"Books"

The duo visit the Wise Old Elf in The Great Elf Liabary to find out where stars go in the daytime.

25

"Betty Caterpillar"

The duo befriend a caterpillar called Betty, who wishes she could fly, and King Thistle advises them to fatten her up. They soon get a big surprise the next day!

26

"Queen Holly"

Holly is left in charge of Little Kingdom while the king and queen are away. But it isn't as easy as it looks, especially with an ice-cream flood...

27

"The Tooth Fairy (Volume 3)"

The duo discover that Nanny Plum is a tooth fairy by night, and head out on the job with her, but they receive a shock when they catch sight of the little girl they are visiting.

28

"The Elf Windmill"

Mr Elf demonstrates why it takes so long to make flour, but Nanny Plum refuses to wait, and uses magic to speed up the elf windmill.

29

"The Elf Band"

Holly and her parents try to impress Snobby King and Queen Marigold with help from the elf band.

30

"The Ant Hill"

Things start to go missing all over the kingdom, and Ben and Holly realise that ants are stealing their possessions.

31

"Redbeard the Elf Pirate"

Barnaby Elf's uncle Redbeard has lost all his treasure, prompting Holly and Ben to follow the clues in an effort to track it down.

32

"Tadpoles"

Holly takes frogspawn home to look after, but is shocked the following morning to discover it has turned into tadpoles.

33

"Cows"

The children visit the Big Farm to find out where milk comes from.

34

"Queen Thistle's Day Off"

Queen Thistle goes to visit her sister, so Holly, Ben, Nanny and the King have to look after naughty twins Daisy and Poppy for the day.

35

"Nature Class"

Nanny Plum and The Wise Old Elf take the children for a lesson in the woods about Nature.

36

"Toy Robot"

The friends fix a broken toy robot, but it begins to act very strange due to the magic clockwork key they put in it.

37

"Big Bad Barry"

King Thistle goes fishing with Mr Elf, Ben and Holly, and decides they should catch the meanest fish ever - Big Bad Barry - for their supper.

38

"King Thistle's Birthday"

Confusion reigns in the Little Kingdom when King Thistle declares no one is allowed to celebrate his birthday, because he does not want to get any older.

39

"The Wand Factory"

Holly breaks her wand and must go to the Wand Factory at the bottom of the Great Elf Tree to get it fixed.

40

"Camping Out (Volume 4)"

Holly goes on a camping trip with Ben and his parents, but the annoying Mr Gnome turns up.

41

"Dinner Party"

Snooty King and Queen Marigold invite themselves to dinner at the castle, where they sample Nanny Plum's cooking. Nanny Plum tries to cook special modern food.

42

"Woodpecker"

King Thistle is confused when his magic bird-spotting book fails to identify a new creature that has made a nest in the castle.

43

"Daisy and Poppy's Pet"

Nanny Plum conjures up a hamster called Pippin for the twins, but the naughty new pet causes chaos in the castle.

44

"The Elf Rocket"

King Thistle instructs the elves to build a rocket that can fly to the moon. Once Completed King Thistle, Holly, Nanny Plum, Ben, Mr Elf and Gaston fly it into outer space. The episode continues in "Picnic on the Moon"

45

"Picnic on the Moon"

Continuing from "The Elf Rocket" King Thistle and the gang venture out of the rocket onto the moon and meet some friendly aliens, but quickly realise they do not have enough fuel to return home, so they use magic jelly.

46

"Lucy's Picnic"

The elf and fairy children learn how the rubbish left after a picnic can be recycled into new toys, and Lucy has a look around the Little Kingdom.

47

"Acorn Day"

A gang of squirrels appears at the Great Elf Tree determined to store acorns inside, but the Wise Old Elf has other ideas.

48

"The Elf Submarine"

Ben, Holly, Nanny Plum and Mr Elf set sail to retrieve Redbeard the Elf Pirate's sunken ship treasure with the Elf Submarine, but Big Bad Barry tries to stop them.

49

"Visiting the Marigolds"

Everyone visits King and Queen Marigold's castle.

50

"The Party"

Chaos ensues when Daisy and Poppy invite their friends to the castle for their birthday party.

51

"Snow"

The youngsters help when Mr Elf forgets to deliver the last box of toys to Father Christmas.

52

"North Pole"

The elf plane is forced to make an emergency crash landing en route to delivering the last batch of Christmas presents.

 

第二季 Season 2

Episode Number

Title

1

"Giants in the Meadow"

Ben, Holly, and all of the elves and fairies try to stop Lucy's dad from destroying the Little Kingdom to build a new field for cows.

2

"Mrs Fig's Magic School"

Holly is old enough to go to magic school, so along with Fleur, Strawberry, Violet, and Ben and the other young elves go too [despite protests from the Wise Old Elf]. But they discover the magic school is anything but fun, including the teacher, Mrs Fig.

3

"Daisy and Poppy's Playgroup"

Daisy and Poppy and their friends from 'The Party' go to playgroup, but after the disappearance of their old teacher, Mrs Fotheringill, Queen Thistle becomes the new teacher, but then they make her disappear so Mrs Elf has to look after the toddlers. But then the whole playgroup gets sent right back in time to the time of the dinosaurs!

4

"No Magic Day"

It is the time of the year for the blue moon which gives no fairy magic for one day of the year - and also stops the Elf Factory's Elf Engine from working - and the fuel is magic.

5

"Spies"

Ben and Holly and their friends learn all about spying when both Nanny Plum and the Wise Old Elf compete to build a boat for King Thistle that won't be laughed at by snooty King and Queen Marigold at the boating carnival.

6

"Hard Times"

After a mishap involving a demonstration of the magic money chest and buttons, King Thistle tries to do a job to get a gold coin, with chaotic results.

7

"Gaston Goes to School"

Ben, Holly and King Thistle decide to send Gaston to Miss Jolly's pet school and he meets his friends there. But soon, Gaston learns how good it is to be himself.

8

"Elf Rescue"

Nanny Plum is very impressed when the Elf Rescue Service rescues her, Ben, Holly, Gaston and Redbeard from the lake, and ends up making false emergencies, much to the Wise Old Elf's anger and annoyance. But soon, both Nanny Plum and the Wise Old Elf need help from Children Rescue!

9

"Lucy's School"

Nanny Plum, Gaston, Ben and Holly go with Lucy to her school on Nature Day, whilst trying not to be seen by her friends or her teacher, Miss Cookie. Imagine the chaos that follows!

10

"Baby Dragon"

Ben, Holly and their friends adopt a dragon and they name him Dave, and Gaston gets jealous. Later, Ben, Holly, Nanny Plum and Mr Elf take him back home to Dragonland.

11

"Dolly Plum"

Daisy and Poppy turn Nanny Plum into a doll, and the Wise Old Elf copies it and in a matter of seconds, it becomes very popular, much to Nanny Plum's dismay.

12

"The Lost City"

Ben, Holly, Nanny Plum, Gaston, and the Wise Old Elf set out on a mission to save Redbeard the Elf Pirate from 'The Lost City' [which is really a garden centre).

13

"The Shooting Star"

Ben & Holly meet some of the friendly aliens from 'Picnic on the Moon', and a small green one called Zyros, who are on holiday when their flying saucer crashes.

14

"Nanny's Magic Test"

Nanny Plum is forced to return to Mrs Fig's magic school after her fairy license expires.

15

"Gaston To The Rescue"

When Ben, Holly and their parents get trapped in a dwarf mine, Gaston comes to their rescue.

16

"Miss Cookie's Nature Trail"

Miss Cookie organizes a nature trail for Lucy [the little girl that Ben and Holly know]'s class, but unfortunately, it goes right through the Little Kingdom! So it's up to Ben and Holly to stop Lucy's class and teacher finding out about the elves and fairies!

17

"The New Wand"

Holly's wand catches a cold, and she gets a new replacement wand from the Wise Old Elf, called the WiseWand 3000 and she's thrilled - until she discovers it's special feature: it doesn't do ANY magic at all!

18

"Superheroes"

Ben, Holly and their friends play a game where they become superheroes and supervillains.

19

"Mrs Witch's Spring Clean"

Ben, Holly and Nanny Plum help Mrs Witch with a big spring clean by getting rid of some objects, but they cause madness, mayhem, and chaos in the Little Kingdom.

20

"The Fruit Harvest"

Rosie, Ben and Holly help out on the day of the fruit harvest, but Mr Gnome has eaten the fruit. The elves and fairies should find various ways to stop Mr Gnome from eating the blackberries.

21

"Uncle Gaston"

Gaston's brother Tony and his family comes to visit, and Ben, Holly and Strawberry help him look after Tony's kids, Amber, Emerald and Keith.

22

"Plumbing"

King Thistle decides on home improvement to impress King and Queen Marigold, but things don't quite go according to plan...

23

"Big Ben and Holly"

Ben and Holly accidentally become big, and they like it. But they soon discover that being big isn't all it's cracked up to be.

 

四、后记-关于英音与美音

    Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom与Peppa Pig一样,是纯英音动画片。

    常会看到有人倾向于选择英音或美音节目,而略显排斥另一种。

    我是以难度与内容来择优选取,而兼顾两种语音。我认为学英语的目的,不仅仅是学习语言,更多的启迪智慧,了解世界,而是用英语学习,用英语思考。

    通过Nick网站,我们可以了解到Nick在英国,同样播放那些Nick Jr.电视台在美国流行的经典动画:

Dora the Explorer

Go! Diego Go!

Bubble Guppies

   既然英美国家的儿童,都会相互看看对方出的好节目,我们更应该兼收并蓄了。

 

   Ben and Holly这个动画片还有图书,有机会借到,可以看看。

本和霍利的小王国 <wbr>Ben <wbr>and <wbr>Holly's <wbr>Little <wbr>Kingdom

 

 

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