Broadcasters in Norway, Estonia, Croatia, Slovakia and Latvia have acquired a non-dialogue animated preschool series coproduced by Finnish animation house Sun in Eye Productions.

^[1]TV2 in Norway, ERR in Estonia, HRT in Croatia, RTVS in Slovakia and Public Latvian Television have all pre-bought Pikkuli (26×5′), which previously went under the title Lil’ Birdie.

The series is based on the novels Lenna Pikkuli, Lenna by author Metsämarja Aittokoski and illustrated by Elli Vuorinen.

The show is a coproduction between Sun in Eye Productions and GSW Animation in Jamaica, while Ireland’s Monster Entertainment holds distribution rights.

YLE pre-bought the show, which follows a little bird who doesn’t want to learn to fly and so instead hops around like a chicken, last year, as revealed ^[2] by C21.