Based on children's book movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant based on children's book movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny and light films and TV shows about / with family relations, friendship, escapades, danger, friends, disorder, young heroes, youth, heroes and boy plots mostly in Family, Comedy and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
based on children's book
TOP 10 movies tagged as based on children's book: Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Cat in the Hat (2003), Jumanji (1995), The Grinch (2018), The Polar Express (2004), Pippi Longstocking (1969), Frozen (2013), Madeline (1998), The Lorax (2012), Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024).
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts -- Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander -- crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Style:
stylized, touching, dark fantasy, light, talky ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
childhood, creature, mischievous children, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, imagination, loneliness, island, children, coming of age, youth, anger ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until ...
Style:
stylized, humorous, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, preschool
Plot:
imaginary kingdom, cat, youth, friendship, disorder, talking cat, getting home, fish out of water, rescue, danger, child, goofy hero ...
Time:
year 2003
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374K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, offbeat, light, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
jungle, fantasy world, childhood, board game, magic, time travel, adventurer, getting home, children, parallel world, supernatural, danger ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s, 19th century, 1860s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration.
Style:
light, 3d animation, touching, entertaining, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, adult
Plot:
christmas, snow, holiday, regret, dog, thief, winter, best friend, christmas season, optimism, small town, happy ending ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he ...
Style:
feel good, 3d animation, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
food, inventor, nerd, natural disaster, father son relationship, mad scientist, small town, greed, parents and children, save the world, friendship, weatherman ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, paris france, china, egypt, london ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, France, Taiwan, South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
It's Christmastime in the Hundred Acre Wood and all of the gang is getting ready with presents and decorations. The gang makes a list of what they want for Christmas and send it to Santa Claus - except that Pooh forgot to ask for something. So ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, christmas special, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
christmas, winnie the pooh, friendship, tiger, rabbit, goofy hero, mischievous children, kangaroo, escapades, young heroes, best friend, partner ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Style:
feel good, computer animated, fairy tale, motion capture, christmas classics ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, magic, train, railway, dream, santa claus, snow, winter, xmas, good versus evil, boy ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
michigan
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
Pippi Longstocking is a TV series based on Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking children's books. The show ran for thirteen episodes, the first episode being broadcast 8 February 1969 on the then Swedish public service channel Sveriges ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, humorous, vintage
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
monkey, youth, nordic, smart kid, magic, ape, friendship, redhead girl, strong female character, strong female lead, children, best friend ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
Story:
Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas ...
Style:
christmas special, colorful, atmospheric, christmas classics, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
christmas, holiday, dog, winter, obsession, snow, christmas eve, fish out of water, imaginary, social misfits, xmas, change of heart ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
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660K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, touching, romantic, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot:
princess, sisters, disney princess, snow, magic, magical, happy ending, power of love, female protagonist, wizards and magicians, love and romance, snowman ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 1800s, 1840s, 19th century
Place:
europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic at solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
children, kidnapping, orphan, rescue, school, girl, chase, coming of age, childhood, mischievous children, friendship, amateur detective ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1998, 90s, 50s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, sweet, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
childhood, bad luck, job interview, child's point of view, siblings relations, father son relationship, brothers, family relations, birthday party, coming of age, friends, mischievous children ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
australia, usa
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129K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, computer animated, colorful, 3d animation ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
environmental, childhood, ecology, friendship, environment, deforestation, environmentalism, talking animal, greed, chase, heroes, society ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the children's book, where 4-year-old Harold uses a purple crayon to create a world of his own by just drawing.
Style:
exciting, entertaining, captivating, light, funny
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mission, boy, magical, children, magical power, adventure hero, childhood, adventurer, wizards and magicians, imagination, crayon, young
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
Story:
The tale of a ravenous rat who craves buns, biscuits and all sweet things. Tearing along the highway, he searches for sugary treats to steal, until his sweet tooth leads him to a sticky end.
Style:
christmas special, tense, entertaining, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
rat, anthropomorphic animal, thief, animal, animal that acts human, satire, animal life, villain as protagonist, food, stealing food, greed, bakery ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Mr. Men Show was an animated television series based on the original Mr. Men and Little Miss books created in the 1970s, 80s and 90s by British author Roger Hargreaves and his son Adam Hargreaves. Adapted from the published source material into ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, captivating, light, anthology ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
friendship, friends, social relations, disorder, farce
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Part of The Book of Pooh series, which offers preschool kids simple life lessons and scholastic pointers, The Book of Pooh: Stories From the Heart uses puppetry and computer animation to tell Christopher Robin's imaginative tales. Kids join ...
Style:
educational, funny, light, captivating
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
winnie the pooh, training, friendship, anthropomorphic animal, friends, cartoon bear
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Meet two funny bunny siblings, the energetic and mischievous Max, and the patient, smart and goal-oriented Ruby. The show models empowering messages by showing Max and Ruby playing together and resolving their differences respectfully and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
animal life, best friend, young heroes, rabbit, brother sister relationship, animal, humour, animal protagonist, siblings relations, family relations, friends, cartoon rabbit ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Rik Boskamp is tired of being bullied all the time. After he sees a maffia movie, he decides to pretend that his dad is an important - and dangerous! - mob boss.
Style:
entertaining, light, captivating, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
bully, bullying, pretense, mafia, boy, father son relationship, prank, teenage life, satire, crime boss, criminal, deception ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the young woman to her small village in the Alps is reported to have crashed in the mountains, Sebastian ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, exciting, feel good, light
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, little boy, friendship, boy, boy and dog, father and son, missing person, orphan, father son reunion, father son relationship, courage, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, year 2015, year 1945
Place:
alps
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
The Story of Tracy Beaker is a television programme adapted from the book of the same name by Jacqueline Wilson. It ran on CBBC for five series, from 2002 to 2005 and also contained a feature length episode, Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me, ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, toddlers
Plot:
foster home, foster child, female protagonist, adoptive mother, 10 year old, farce, pandemic, british, island
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Pippi in the South Seas (original title is Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven) is a 1970 film, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren with the cast of the 1969 TV series. Pippi, with friends Tommy and Annika, adventures on ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
pirate, monkey, youth, kidnapping, best friend, women, bird, fictional country, nordic, ape, european, rescue mission ...
Place:
fictional island, eastern europe
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Clifford overhears Mr. Bleakman say that feeding him must cost a lot of money. A carnival act called "Larry's Amazing Animals" has just been in town, and the animals in the show told Clifford about an animal contest with a prize of a ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, 2d animation
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
cartoon dog, animal life, friendship, odd couple, rescue, buddies, mischievous children, danger, pets, fish out of water, best friend, dog ...
Time:
year 2004
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, ...
Style:
exciting, intense, semi serious, epic, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
robot, space travel, brother brother relationship, board game, sibling rivalry, childhood, outer space, child, game, alien, space, youth ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
Style:
humorous, fairy tale, talky, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, date night, teens ...
Plot:
stop motion, anthropomorphic animal, unlikely partners, anthropomorphism, fox, talking animal, furry, heroic mission, dishonesty, danger, evil, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 2000s
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American owner, Alec Ramsay (Kelly Reno), he's much more. So, when the amazing animal is stolen, Alec will stop at nothing to get him back. Alec ...
Style:
independent film, humorous, semi serious, tense
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, horse race, desert, friendship, animal, youth, chase, human animal relationship, girl horse relationship, kidnapping, family relations, animal life ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
morocco, africa
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet should be put down. But when Mary and her father try to bury the cat, Lori MacGregor (Susan ...
Style:
talky, atmospheric, touching, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
cat, afterlife, pets, dealing with death, animal, happy ending, storytelling, family life, terminal illness, witch, youth, friendship ...
Time:
year 1963, 1910s, year 1912
Place:
scotland, europe, britain
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Style:
emotional, adult animation, disturbing, serious, sad ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
rabbit, friendship, blood, journey, animal, violent, mature, survival, vegan, folk horror, literary, anthropomorphism ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the ...
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, epic, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
fantasy world, witch, good versus evil, legends and myths, magic, magical, medieval, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, winter, sword fight, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, future, year 1940, 20th century
Place:
antarctic, england, london
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Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, feel good, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, pre-teens, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
ballet, dancing, family problems, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, orphan, youth, siblings relations, family relations, hopes, dance ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
london, europe
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