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Official logo featuring the main characters. From left to right: Sun, Ring, Stella, and Zip.
Genre	Fictional Science Fiction Comedy Action-Adventure
Created by	Maria Elena Congedo Fiorella Congedo
Directed by	Éric Gosselet
Voices of	Eleanor Noble Sonja Ball Holly Gauthier-Frankel Richard Dumont Jennifer Seguin
Theme music composer	Alessandro Boriani
Ending theme	"Trulli Tales" (instrumental)
Composer(s)	Alessandro Boriani Fiorella Congedo Maria Elena Congedo
Country of origin	Italy France Canada
Original language(s)	Italian French English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Nicolas Atlan Fiorella Congedo Maria Elena Congedo Domenico Procacci François Trudel Vincent Leroux Michael G. Stern
Producer(s)	Marc Dhrami Stefano Basso François Trudel Annita Romanelli
Running time	11 minutes
Production company(s)	Fandango TV Congedo CulturArte Gaumont Animation Groupe PVP Rai Fiction
Distributor	Congedo CulturArte Gaumont Animation
Release
Original network	Rai Yoyo and Disney Junior (Italy) Disney Junior (France) Ici Radio-Canada Télé (Canada)
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Audio format	Stereo
First shown in	Brazil
Original release	October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17) – February 14, 2019 (2019-02-14)

Trulli Tales, fully known as Trulli Tales: The Adventures of Trullalleri, is an Italian-French-Canadian animated children's television series created by Maria Elena and Fiorella Congedo. The series first premiered on October 17, 2017 on Gloobinho in Brazil. The series was produced by Fandango TV, Congedo CulturArte, Gaumont Animation, Groupe PVP, and Rai Fiction with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, the collaboration of Radio-Canada and produced in association with The Walt Disney Company EMEA.

Set in the fictional world of Trullalleri or Trulliland (which is meant to resemble Alberobello), the series revolves around four children and one teacher who learn how to cook from their Grandma Trulli's cookbook from the past. But when Copperpot tries to steal it, the four children; Ring, Zip, Stella, and Sun, must stop him with the magical power from their wands.

Characters

Main

• Ring (voiced by Eleanor Noble) – The talented leader of the group. He is a generous and kind friend, but can also be a little self-confident and vain. He is good at cooking and is the one in the group who selects the ingredients for each recipe. His wand is a fork and also a magnet, which is able to attract objects. He has brown hair, dark eyes, dressed in red.
• Zip (voiced by Sonja Ball) – The sportsman of the group. He is nice and funny, but sometimes he proves to be moody and impatient. He deals with mincing, blending, and cutting the ingredients selected by Ring. His wand is a kitchen whisk that can create wind. He has orange hair and green eyes and dressed in blue.
• Stella (voiced by Sonja Ball) – The most vaporous of the group. Although at many times she is quite inattentive, distracted, careless, childish, and naive, she can be good-natured, kind, sensitive, polite, and sweet. She is talented in decorating, as shown by her ability to decorate the dishes. Her wand is a spatula that she uses to decorate the food made by her and her friends. She has brown hair, brown eyes, dressed in yellow.
• Sun (voiced by Holly Gauthier-Frankel) – The first of the group's class. She is very determined, intelligent, and brilliant, but can be touchy and stubborn. She takes care of cooking the dishes in the group. Her wand is a spoon, which she uses to control temperatures. She has blonde hair and blue eyes and is dressed in pink.
• Miss Frisella (voiced by Eleanor Noble) - Owner of the Trulli Kingdom bakery and keeper of the Magic Cookbook
• Trulli Grandma (voiced by Sonja Ball) - Creator of the Magic Cookbook and would guide the kids through riddles that would help them solve any of their problems.

Villains

• Copperpot (voiced by Richard M. Dumont) – The main villain who always tries to steal the Magic cookbook. He would always brag about being a genius. It is revealed in I Want to Bread Free that he wants the Magic Cookbook to free his one of his ancestors Copperpan who is trapped inside.
• Athenina (voiced by Jennifer Seguin) – Copperpot's pet owl.

Recurring

• Terry and Lu (voiced by Sonja Ball and Angela Galuppo) - A spider and snail that appear at the beginning and end of every episode.
• Trulli King (voiced by Terrence Scammell) - The ruler of TrulliLand who has a collection of Donkey antiques

Other Characters

• Professor Chump - The coach of the TrulliBall team
• Oscar – A student at the Trulli School and friend of the Wizard Chefs
• Copperpan - Copperpot's ancestor who is trapped inside the Magic Cookbook which is the reason why Copperpot wants the book himself.
• Moldy Mean Genie - A being that traps others in bottles
• Mommypot - Copperpot’s mother

Production

Trulli Tales is produced by Fandango TV, Congedo CulturArte, and Rai Fiction in Italy, Gaumont Animation in France, and Groupe PVP in Canada. Gaumont and Groupe formed a co-production agreement for this series, alongside Belle and Sebastian in 2015. The series was inspired by a book published by Congedo.

The show was commissioned by The Walt Disney Company for its Disney Junior channels in the EMEA regions, alongside Rai Fiction for Rai YoYo in Italy, Ici Radio-Canada Télé in Canada, and Globosat's Gloobinho in Brazil. Boat Rocker Media represents the property for consumer products in the United Kingdom.

Episodes

Every episode of the series was directed by Éric Gosselet.

Broadcast

Trulli Tales debuted October 17, 2017 on Gloobinho in Brazil. The series premiered on December 11, 2017 on Disney Junior in Italy, and later June 11, 2018 on Rai YoYo. In Canada, the series premiered on Ici Radio-Canada Télé on January 6, 2018, and on Knowledge Network on May 7, 2018.

On December 11, 2017, the series debuted across many Disney Junior channels in the EMEA area, including France and the UK and Ireland. The series also premiered in the latter on Tiny Pop on January 21, 2019. In South Africa, the series premiered on February 26, 2018. In Singapore, the series premiered on Channel 5 on July 15, 2019. On October 5, the series premiered in the United States on Nick Jr. As of November 2019, the series had been sold to 177 territories globally.

Awards

Trulli Tales was awarded the Prix Gémeaux for best animated series in 2018. In 2019, it became the first television series to win the Italian Creativity Award from the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in the United States.

Merchandise

Giochi Preziosi launched a series of toys for the series in 2018, which were distributed in Italy and the United Kingdom. Additional merchandise was produced for Italian release, including educational toys, tissues, stickers, and food products. Panini began publishing an official magazine in November 2019.

See also

In Spanish: Trulli Tales para niños