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There are some books that have been so popular, they came as far as getting TV spin offs. Namely The Berenstein Bears, which I enjoyed reading when I was younger, as well as Clifford the Big Red Dog. Those two book series earned recognition as TV series on PBS.

What are some other books you like (or don't like) that earned their very own TV cartoon series?
 
Wayside. A really underrated series. It was really crazy as were the books and I loved both. It didn't due as well in America as in Canada but Nick did a really lousy job advertising it and gave it a terrible timeslot. But the people that saw it didn't seem to like it as much as me. I thought it had really clever jokes and above all, a great cast of characters. The series actually inspired to me read the books.
 
Redwall, Babar, Madeline, Edgar and Ellen, and Curious George are all book series turned animated series. Good ones as well, although I can't vouch for Curious George having never seen it, but I liked the books when I was younger.


I remember reading the books in 4th grade and couldn't believe it when I found out that there was a series made, let alone a good one. A bit different than the books, but good nonetheless.
 
Can't forget Arthur. The cartoon has been on since I was a young'in, and it doesn't appear to show any signs of slowing down. Wouldn't surprise me if it was more popular than the books.
 
There's Deltora Quest, which was an anime, based on a set of fantasy novels by Emily Rodda. I've never seen the show, but there were recent rumors that CN was going to acquire the series, which, of course, wasn't true since it was never announced or even hinted at in this year's Upfront.
 
don't forget the classics
tom sewyer
little women
jungle book
and anne of green gables
had animes that followed the books plotline almost exactelly
 
I think you mean Tom Sawyer. Speaking of whom, he, Becky Thatcher, and Huckleberry Finn were featured in a combination live action/animated series from 1968-69 titled The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This was quite an innovative series from Hanna-Barbera that was well ahead of its time.
 
Silverwing was based on a book. It was part of a trilogy or something and I think they intended to make more but Silverwing didn't really catch on.

There's the quite popular toddler show Caillou that is based on a series of books.

I believe there's a True Meaning of Crumbfest book out there that inspired the movie, which then got a spin off TV series, Eckhart.

Classic characters like Sherlock Holmes and Ars?ne Lupin got series out of their adventures.

The 12 Kingdoms was a series of book (REALLY good ones too, I read some of them) before being an anime series.

If you want to go for even older books Journey to the West is a pretty good pitch to hit.

But maybe we should keep this limited to series made of books that were published when TV animation actually existed.
 
You're not alone, I also like Wayside. I begin to ponder if Nick gived it a terrible timeslot because there might be afraid then Wayside would had been more sucesseful then their "in-house" series? Teletoon in Canada also broadcast the French dub of Wayside and Sebastien Redding who provided the French voice of Todd, fit Todd perfectly.
 
And Miyazaki, worked on both animated adaptation of these characters with Sherlock Hound and Lupin the 3rd. Also Lupin got a not widely known animated adaptation known as "Nighthood" who was broadcasted on YTV in Canada in the mid-1990s.
 
There's also the upcoming Tara Duncan animated series, which is based off of a French book series that's been called "Harry Potter's French little sister".



Not necessarily. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds and Chaotic weren't announced at the 2009 upfront, and those were acquired.
 
I never saw the Redwall tv series while it was still on,but I saw it on youtube and wasn't half bad.

There was also a tv series for Watership Down,which is strange because they already made a movie for it.
 
Yep. Time Warp Trio was part of NBC's now defunct Discovery Kids Saturday morning block, and I believe that the series still airs on the Discovery Kids Channel, which will be re-branded as The Hub on October 10th.
 
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