Lena Khan is taking a Newberry Award-winning children’s book about a comic book fan who befriends a super-powered squirrel to the big screen. The director just kicked off production on Walt Disney Pictures’ “Flora & Ulysses,” a press release announced.

Based on Kate DiCamillo’s “Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures,” the pic tells the story of Flora (Matilda Lawler, Broadways’s “The Ferryman”), a cynical 10-year-old who “saves a squirrel she names Ulysses only to have its unique superhero powers wreak havoc in a series of humorous, antic-filled adventures that ultimately change Flora’s life — and her outlook — forever,” according to its official synopsis.

Alyson Hannigan (“How I Met Your Mother”) co-stars.

Now filming in Vancouver, “Flora & Ulysses” is being produced for Disney+. The streamer launches in the U.S. on November 12. No word on when to expect “Flora & Ulysses.”

Khan made her feature debut with 2016’s “The Tiger Hunter.” Set in the 1970s, the comedy follows Sami Malik (Danny Pudi, “Community”), a young Indian man who travels to to the U.S. with the hopes of becoming an an engineer, a job that will help him live up to the legacy of his father, who is a legendary tiger hunter, and impress his childhood crush.

“Since I began in the film industry, my goal has always been the same – to make entertainment that calls attention to some of the more salient and overlooked social issues of our society,” Khan has said. “There are so many times that a story is all people need to really help them see an issue in a new way, to finally care about it, to even know that it exists. I hope to do that in a way that is fun and entertaining, and through stories that people actually want to see.”