What are some books from your childhood/younger teens that you

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It'd make for an excellent Netflix series. Probably the only format that could do it justice.

>>93904495
Came here to post this, could be a masterpiece.

>>93904424


...are you new or is this a low-key jab at the movie?

>>93904424
Any of the book series by Brian Jacques

>>93904559
I was using Coraline as an example of a kids book that was adapted into /co/ content.

>>93904658

Ah, okay.

>>93904424
Alex Rider needs the full graphic novel treatment. Those books aren't just well-written, they're actually really dark for young adult fiction. I'm picturing something like the Artemis Fowl graphic novels with a Garth Ennis vibe

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The more perverted aspects may have to be toned back to not trigger moral guardians, but this book was fucking amazing when it came to world building and the mechanics of magic.

I like how a massive part of Florida is an isolated magical community.

The Pern books, though I don't think they're technically YA I read them as a teenager

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>>93904424
Would be a pretty good miniseries or even a comic, riding giants bats into war against human sized talking rats is just a cool idea.

Also, I kinda blame this novel for giving me one of my biggest fetishes that barely exists in /co/ media

I always thought Howliday Inn would make a great movie.

>>93904902
sigh

what fetish

>>93905037
Albino girls

The Oracle Betrayed series, seriously my favorite books growing up and I've never heard anyone talk about them.
Also Mortal Engines and The Leviathan Series would be cool.

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>>93904813
>Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! . . . You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you?

If ever I manage to git gud at writing, my big bad guy will definitely be inspired by Ahriman/Angra Mainyu and the Beast. There's just something about unbound destructiveness that makes for an interesting villain.

>>93904424
I like the movie but I wish a more faithful adaptation could be made. I think claymation would still be the best way to do it, but the movie we got just didn't really capture the subdued and chill yet still terrifying feeling of the original book

>>93905383
But the whole point was the beast was just the kids inner evil that they were projecting onto on outside source, you can't write a "villain" like the beast because the beast wasn't real.

A BONE series by netflixs would be great

They should really do His Dark Materials as a cartoon instead of trying to go live action again.

>>93905715
The main issue is they tried to condense a 400 page book into a 2 hour movie.
Seriously, when are they going to figure out that it's never gonna fucking work, the average movie script is 120 pages long and nowhere near as condensed as a book, take a hint.

>>93904424
>What are some books from your childhood/younger teens that you think would work great adapted to /co/ content?

Coraline's already been both an animated movie and a comic book.

>>93907561
see >>93904658

>>93904424
The Gone series by Michael Grant would work well as a netflix series.

>>93908916
Sisters Grimm also.

>>93909008
This one really got me

>>93907498
The movie ending got me so mad.

>>93904592
There was a huge redwall series anon

Start watching

>>93905024
The right answer.

It always hurt me to know D.J Machale was already in the television business yet nothing would become of Pendragon

>>93904874
Piers is a literal pervert author

>>93904902
>not sea of trolls
>not the one about the Mexican drug lords clone

Collins is great though, maybe I should read that bat one

>>93905142
More steampunk is always good

>>93905715
>>93905846
Speaking of which....

I just reread the Amber spyglass and the writing is fucking terrible. Deus Ex Machinas and info dumps out the fucking ass.

The setting and worlds building heh was tremendous,and the whole idea of an atheistic take on Paradise Lost is genius, but it would really have to be totally modified to give it better pacing and such.

Also Netflix will never touch it guaranteed. Wouldn't want to risk a religious boycott.

>>93907498
This book was hyped constantly on library reading lists and school book sales throughout my childhood and I still haven't read it.

>>93909987
Worth it. I read it the year before it was assigned as a kid because I kept hearing so much about it.

It's the length of the old man and the sea just read it man.

>>93909394
Even though Gone had a "happy" ending, I still cried. It would make a great cartoon and each season can be one book from the series

For one, The Secret Life of Dilly McBean. It was sort of like a proto-Artemis Fowl without the fantasy creatures but with him having magnetic powers.

For another, The Marvellous Land of Snergs, which had a lot of influence on Tolkien.

Plus The AI Gang; '80s nostalgia is big right now anyway.

There's a few books that I can remember the plot of but not the titles for the life of me that would make pretty good animated films.

One of them was called something along the lines of A Small Matter of a Dragon, which is an old style fairy tale about three thieves, one of them a cat, one a fox, and the other something else that are ordered by a judge to slay a dragon or be sentenced to the gallows.

The other was a strange little book about two kids who are living in the Northeast who wind up meeting a King of the River style troll who lives behind a waterfall. I think there was an odd subplot about them being able to talk to animals because of something they'd eaten.

>>93904424
Haunt fox

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Almost any the series by Garth Nix, with Seventh Tower/Keys to the Kingdom being tied as my favorite.

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>>93911430
THIS

I NEED

I

NEED

I NEED SABRIEL

FUCKING NECROMANCERS MAN FUCKING COOL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>93905529
>>93904495

I like this

>>93904495
Christ I've been wanting to draw an Animorphs comic for ages. Don't think I'd do it justice at all. A Netflix series would be phenomenal done right.

>>93904424
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. I'd love to see a Netflix animated miniseries based on this book.

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I mean. There was a manga. There are a slew of fan animations. She's still writing this story to this day! It's not like it's a niche series.

>>93911430
>Garth Nix

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>>93904424
Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville

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>>93913445
Also Aliens Ate My Homework

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Dragons of the Lost Sea by Laurence Yep. It's been over a decade since I even thought about the series, but I was able to remember the title and the author's name immediately.

Now that I think of it, the style of Kubo would fit the Dragon series very well.

>>93904874
The series got dumbed down over the years. Piers Anthony is GOAT, but he admitted being able to write a Xanth book in about a month, which is why there's at least 100+ of them. The Xanth books put his kids through college.

The first three are the best, with exception to a few odds and ends in the series.

>>93909691
He loves porn. Admitted it during interviews.

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A non-anime version of this please. I thought Hayao Miyazaki could do no wrong but he fucked this up and that's not okay.

Baily school kids and the magic tree house

>>93912970
WHY didn't this become a huge franchise? So much potential. I feel like it could almost be like Harry Potter.

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>>93911430
>>93911457
Agree.

>>93904592
I want Redwall to get the HBO treatment.

I want the food to look mouth-watering and the violence to be sickening.

>>93913453
Let's just say "anything by Coville". Dude has chops.

>>93905106
I swear if I meet a girl like that with violet eyes idk how I'm gonna survive.

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Terry Pratchett's discworld needs to have an animated SERIES, not a move, there is just too much to explore to do it in one movie. This wouldn't have to follow any of the novels but could pull from any of them for a fun adventure story, like do a single episode or two for We Free Men.

and Narnia ofc

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Runaway convict hiding in a deserted island accidentally stumbles upon a machine that records and plays back people's soul's

>>93904495
Animorphs is one of those properties I'm very surprised hasn't gotten a reboot/big budget movie/some kind of revival in the 2010's

An Animorphs show with a Netflix budget could do pretty well, especially given the trend of prestige tv

>>93913453
I read this several times and enjoyed it a ton!

>>93912970
fucking this times a thousand

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>>93904424
Redwall could be marvelous if done right. Tons of characters, good action sequences, endless story lines and universe building, and so many books the content would be never ending.

>>93914581
Speaking of Discworld was there any news about the City Watch TV series thing?

I loved the Watch books althoughSnuffwasaletdown so I was pretty hype when I heard that they're making a show based on them, and now we have jack shit.

>>93912970
It's getting a movie

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The Chronicles of Prydain series would be great. I actually like Disney's Black Cauldron, but I'd love an accurate adaptation of all the books.

Also, the Lost Years of Merlin series would be good too.

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>>93904424
This one was fun.

>>93913453
>>93914182
Mah niggas. Coville was my favorite author as a kid.

>>93904902
Oh shut, I didn't notice she also wrote the Hunger Games. Why isn't this a bigger thing, wasn't it like medieval Avatar with bats, or something.

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>>93904424
Pray to Zots for your winged souls.

>>93913675
I learned to read off of magic treehouse.

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>>93913600
Yup, Piers Anthony is going to take you into his magical realm every time.

>>93904424
Lord of Light would also be super cool. Actually, most of Zelazny's stuff would.

>>93915212
>Lost Years of Merlin
>The Chronicles of Prydain
I can get behind this.

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Okay, everyone shut the fuck up.

I got this.

The fact that the anime is the only adaptation we have makes me feel pain in ways I didn't know was possible. Also WHY an anime, it's an australian book, it's almost like a repeat of Howl's Moving Castle in that it seems that by sheer luck it stumbled into the right people, but man I fucking love this universe.

>>93914514
I have actually met an albino girl once in my first year of high school, like full on pink eyed albino, not just a pale chick, was in a group with her for a class project.

I was a stuttering, awkward mess around her. Fuck me mang she was so hot.
>tfw you lacked the balls to ask her out despite having the perfect opportunity, probably missing out on a once in a lifetime chance

>>93907498
I could see this being a black and white cartoon through the eyes of jonas until he meets the giver and gets his memories

>>93909593
I'll never see it. What did they do, because everyone from the trailers implied it was ruined from the start.

>>93911430
I didn't realize how much I wanted this until I read it.

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I know there's some old Canadian show for this, but if there could be something giving it more justice and completing the story, all while not making the bats a furry's wet dream, then I think we'd be set.

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This

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>>93918893
And this

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>>93918910
And this (Sword in the Stone by itself is very little)

>>93918893
>>93905142
Bad news is that Mortal Engines is already being turned into a live-action film franchise. So I guess you'd have to hope that fails and then wait another decade.

Leviathan sounds like a no brainer though. I don't understand how it hasn't even been optioned yet.

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>>93918939
And this (inb4 someone gets angry about religion)

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>>93918968
and this, definitely >>93911457

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>>93918991
And this, maybe? I'm kinda trying to think of the individual books I really enjoyed as a kid now.

>>93913453

Is this related to my teacher is an alien?

Dragonriders of Pern has already been mentioned, so I have to go with the Castle in the attic and A wrinkle in time if we're sticking with YA novels.

>>93919089
>Is this related to my teacher is an alien?
Same author, separate series.

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It's already a comic but I've always dreamed of this being a stop motion animated movie. Laika pls.

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>>93915537
My absolute nigga!
The Chronicles of Amber is my absolute favorite book series and I've been waiting for any kind of adaptation literally my whole life. I guess Zelazny's too obscure or something...
I want to believe

>>93911430
>Keys to the Kingdom
God yes.

>>93909593
I knew it would suck the moment I heard that is was being made into a movie so I skipped it.

What happened?

>>93913630
Castle in the Sky's way better anyway. Both the Miyazaki movie and the sequel to Howl's.

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>tfw no Berserk tier Witcher cartoon on Toonami

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>>93913630
Also this.

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I remember liking this a lot of a quest book as a kid.

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This would make a fantastic animated movie

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Probably no one else has ever read this one but I'd fucking love to see this as an animated movie.

>>93919758
>The Witcher
>Berserk tier

Pick one

>>93912970
Erin hunter is actually a pseudonym of 3 authors who take turns writing the books if I'm not mistaken

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>>93918910
Awwww shit

>>93914754
There is an old red wall series, heard it was good

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I need a good Enders game adaption. I just want to see the war games properly shown with animation and not shitty special effects.

>>93904424
Pretty sure Coraline already got a comic and a movie.

>>939214016

Read: >>93904658

>>93919149

>Laika

I just want them to do Something Wicked This Way Comes.

>no Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark mentioned yet

The Outsiders might also work