Maurice Sendak

That’s Maurice Sendak, who wrote the libretto and narrates this Klezmatic version of Sergei Prokofiev’s classical standard. Sendak has renamed it Pincus and the Pig, and the music is provided by the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra.

That’s the opening from The Magic Lion, an animated film by Charles Githinji, from the National Film Board of Canada, which has a long tradition of producing some of the most original animated movies in recent times.