IT turns out little monsters have a lot in common with Warrington schoolchildren, including worries about show and tell, friends and class photos.

And one of the characters in CBeebies’ latest animation, School of Roars, even has a Warrington accent.

That’s because Icklewoo, the youngest yellow monster in the show, is voiced by Glazebury pupil Rosie Cooper-Kelly.

The six-year-old landed her first starring role in the cartoon after her mum, Nicola, sent off a tape of Rosie reading a script.

She said: “Both Rosie and her older sister Daisy go to stage school. Rosie wasn’t nervous when she went for the audition, she’s quite young and both of them are confident kids. They just run around the house singing and put on pretend shows.”

After impressing the casting team, who had already secured Kathy Burke, Sarah Lancashire and Andrew Scott to voice leading roles, Rosie began recording in London for one day a month.

“At the grand old age of six, she’s already a pro. She had only just started school, it’s quite a big thing even to travel down to London,” said Nicola.

She added the family have enjoyed watching the show on television, which revolves around a group of monsters who go to school at night but face the same dilemmas as all children.

“It’s really good but it’s weird watching a small yellow monster with your child’s voice coming out of its mouth,” she added.

“You have to get the voice just right with them being monsters, so she has to cry like a monster and laugh like a monster. Sometimes they want 10 different versions of one growl.

“Her character is the youngest so she has an similarity there. She’s a shy little monster.

“The most memorable one was when she had to sing out of tune and it’s hard to purposefully sing very badly. It was hysterical to watch her record that one.”

The show has been picked up by American cable channel Sprout and Nicola said: “They are re-recording all the voices but Rosie’s is the only one they are going to keep. She’s the only monster with a northern voice. We pronounce loads of words differently. Occasionally she would get a bit confused by the way they said ‘bath’ or ‘class’ and she didn’t understand.”