Apple TV+ Announces New Animated Pre-K Series ‘Not a Box’

Apple TV+ has announced an all-new animated preschool series, Not a Box, premiering globally on Friday, June 13. Celebrating the joys of imagination, the series is inspired by the beloved, award-winning children’s picture book of the same name by The New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Antoinette Portis.

Logline: Get creative with bright-eyed bunny Riley! With just one cardboard box, Riley imagines magical worlds — full of new friends and fantastic adventures.

Voice starring Isabel Birch as Riley and Ian James Corlett (Dragon Ball Z) as Adult, the eight-episode series invites young viewers and their families to step into a rich world of environments, characters and encounters that is as limitless as their imaginations to create, explore and celebrate.

Not a Box is produced by Dete Meserve’s Silver Creek Falls Entertainment with Meserve serving as executive producer. The series is written and co-executive produced by Emmy Award winner Michael Rabb. The animation is produced by Passion Pictures with executive producers Debbie Crosscup and Andrew Ruhemann, and directed by Siri Melchior. Additional executive producers include Harry Lowell for Nitelite Pictures, and Angus Wall and Linda Carlson for Rock Paper Scissors.

Kate Robinson, director of the Sir Ken Robinson Foundation and daughter of Sir Ken Robinson, serves as the imagination and creativity expert on the series through Apple TV+’s changemakers initiative. Robinson co-authored her late father’s manifesto, Imagine if… Creating a Future for Us All, which celebrates the power of imagination to create and recreate the world.

You can read our interview with show creator and exec producer Michael Rabb in the next issue of Animation Magazine (Issue No. 350, coming first week in June).