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- Fool Me Once (2024) Based on: Fool Me Once (2016) This is the most recent series to be released on Netflix. The story follows Maya, a grieving widow who finds footage that proves her dead husband might not be as dead as he’s supposed to be.
- Shelter (2023) Based on: Shelter (2011) This is one of the few TV series based on Coben’s works to be adapted by another streaming network. After seeing all the success Netflix had found with previous adaptations, seems like Amazon wanted a piece of that pie too.
- Hold Tight (2022) Based on: Hold Tight (2008) After the death of his friend, teenager Adam goes missing, and as the story turns to his family and the aftermath, secrets are exposed and people’s lives begin to unravel.
- Stay Close (2021) Based on: Stay Close (2012) The investigation into the case of a missing person links to a similar cold case from a long time ago. As DS Michael Broome falls deeper into the mystery, it threatens to reveal not only his dark secrets, but the secrets of others as well.
- 10 A Little Princess
- 9 Pollyanna
- 8 Lottie and Lisa
- 7 Little Women
- 6 Daddy-Long-Legs
- 5 Peter Pan
- 4 Les Miserables
- 3 Anne of Green Gables
- 2 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- 1 Ovid's Metamorphoses
A wealthy young heiress, Sarah Crewe, finds herself a scullery maid at the mercy of her cruel headmistress, Miss Minchin, after the death of her beloved father leaves her penniless. After much struggle, she is eventually rescued by her dead father's business partner whose been searching for her all along. The classic story was eventually adapted in...
In this classic novel, a plucky young orphan is taken in by her spinster aunt in New England. Along the way, her sunny personality rubs off on the people around her, eventually spawning a series of books. In the 1980s, the book was made into an anime by Nippon Animation, lasting 51 episodes, later incorporating elements from the sequel, Pollyanna G...
In this classic German children's novel, two identical girls, raised in Vienna and Munich, meet each other at a summer camp and, after a bad start, realize they are twins each being raised by their divorced, single parents. The girls switch identities to meet the parents they never knew and hatch a scheme to get them back together, 0nly to learn th...
Following the lives of the four March sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy), this classic novel was loosely based on the life of its author, Louisa May Alcott. It later inspired Little Men and Jo's Boys. Before you ask, nobody says, "And then they realized, they were no longer little girls: they were little women" During the 1980s, the book saw not just...
In this classic American novel, a young orphan is granted an education by a mysterious benefactor on the condition that she must write him a monthly letter, without ever knowing his identity, dubbing him the mysterious "Daddy Long Legs." During her studies, she falls in love with the relatives of one of her classmates but realizes he might never be...
The little boy who would never grow up actually originated in J. M. Barrie's The Little White Bird, before being given his own book, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. However, Barrie would later popularize the character through a stage play. Throw in Sandy Duncan and the rest is history. In 1989, the character became the star of Peter Pan no Bōken. ...
Victor Hugo's classic story of redemption revolves around the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his orphaned ward, Cosette, with the eventual Paris Uprising looming in the background. There have been quite a few anime versions of the book over the years: the 1979 special, Jean Valjean Monogatari, and episodes of Manga Sekai Mukashibanashi. O...
In this classic Canadian novel, a plucky young orphan girl...anyone noticing a trend here...comes to Prince Edward Island after she is accidentally adopted by the elderly Cuthbert siblings, who actually wanted a boy to help with the farm chores. In the late 1970s, an anime adaptation was released, with future anime legend Hayao Miyazaki on the crew...
L. Frank Baum's classic American fairy tale has inspired so many films and stage shows, people might forget the story was originally a book. It's also had quite a few anime adaptations over the years. In 1982, the first book was adapted into a theatrical anime film. A few years later, the series was adapted into another, unrelated anime series, las...
Ovid's Metamorphoses, which recounts many classic Greco-Roman myths, is one of the most influential works in Western literature, so it only makes sense it would get an anime film. Produced by Sanrio, of Hello Kitty fame, Winds of Change, also known as Metamorphoses or Orpheus of the Stars, casts a little boy and girl in the stories of "Actaeon," "O...
- Songs in the Year of the Cat (Upper Kingdom, #3) by H. Leighton Dickson (Goodreads Author)
- To Walk in the Way of Lions (Upper Kingdom, #2) by H. Leighton Dickson (Goodreads Author)
- To Journey in the Year of the Tiger (Upper Kingdom, #1) by H. Leighton Dickson (Goodreads Author)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling.
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Apr 14, 2020 · 1 Answer. Sorted by: 4. Anime database sites like MyAnimeList, AniList, Anime-Planet, etc. have a "Source:" field, which indicates the type of medium that the anime was adapted from (if any). Fortunately for your use case, these sites do appear to distinguish between "Novel" and "Light Novel".
Aug 14, 2017 · The Olympians (Graphic Novels) By George O’Connor. A graphic novel series that focusses on one particular Greek God or Goddesses at a time. Olympians Book 1: Zeus: King of the Gods. Olympians Book 2: Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess. Olympians Book 3: Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory. Olympians Book 4: Hades: Lord of the Dead.
May 11, 2024 · Most people might question the accuracy of this entry because of this, but both the author and the illustrator of Freezing have worked in the same industry before. This is probably why there are so many manhwa fans who recommend this show to anime fans who want to see good manga turned into anime. 8. Black God.
Aug 20, 2016 · Beyond Light Novels: 10 Anime ... Beyond Light Novels: 10 Anime Based on Full-Length Novels. Anime seeks inspiration from many places, from light novels to video games. Let's get serious, and dive into the wonderful world of anime based on full-length books. Collection. by Littoface. Aug 20, 2016 1:05 AM | 51,782 views.
