Mog’s Christmas: The illustrated adventures of the nation’s favourite cat, from the author of The Tiger Who Came To Tea

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The Thomas family try everything to rescue her but Mog refuses to come down, and despite everyone’s fears for her safety, she has a magical night in the snow and a cat-themed Christmas dream.

Judith Kerr’s beloved tabby cat is that rare thing in children’s literature, an animal that doesn’t talk or embody all sorts of human characteristics. From the creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat comes the delightful Christmas adventure about a really remarkable cat!

Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh narrates the story, The Crown’s queen of the screen Claire Foy plays Mrs Thomas, the brilliant Zawe Ashton voices a new character, neighbour Mrs Gaynor, while Miriam Margolyes and Maggie Steed play the aunts and Charlie Higson is the jolly uncle. At least, I hope that’s what’s happening, because one of the senile aunts is holding a pair of pantyhose. I had all the Mog books when my children were children, I think they were a big hit because Mog looked a bit like our cat (the cat at that time, not a few generations later like our current ones who cannot be seen on dark stairwells, I don't know how they keep losing their shine in the dark collars, who's choice were they? Mog even dies in the final book in the series, written 22 years after the first – despite her flaws, I hope we have that long with Ruby. The team last worked together on Emmy award-winning adaptation of Kerr’s The Tiger Who Came to Tea, which was the third highest-rating programme on the channel in the whole of 2019.

We’re delighted to announce that Channel 4 has commissioned a new hand-drawn animated special we are producing for HarperCollins Children’s Books and Universal Pictures Content Group, of classic children’s book Mog’s Christmas in the 100th anniversary year of Judith Kerr’s birth. She’s also starred in A Very British Scandal , White Heat, First Man, Little Dorrit, Upstairs Downstairs, Wolf Hall and The Girl in the Spider’s Web.Thomas - all too busy to spend time with her, she retreats outdoors, only to be confronted by a walking, talking tree! She left the BBC to look after their two children, who inspired her first picture book, The Tiger Who Came to Tea . From the creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat comes a delightful Christmas adventure about a really remarkable cat! The house is full of strange bustling, there are new noises and new smells, and where is that tree going?