Kids & YA Book Adaptations of the 1970s

Horton The Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbours who refuse to believe it exists.

Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a toll booth in his room. Having nothing better to do, he gets in his toy car and drives through - only to emerge in a world full of adventure.

A red and white-striped top-hatted cat visits two children left home alone.

A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.

An apprentice witch, three kids, and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II.

A ruined industrialist tells his tale of his environmentally self-destructive greed despite the warnings of an old forest creature.

Young Jim Hawkins has an unforgettable encounter with pirate Captain Long John Silver and his murderous mates.

Dorothy returns to Oz, discovers witch Mombi's plan to conquer with monster green elephants. With help from Pumpkinhead and Woodenhead, she tries to stop Mombi's army and warn her friends in Emerald City about the threat.

Wilbur is a farm pig who's terrified that he'll end up on the dinner table. His friend Charlotte, a charming spider, comes to his rescue. She weaves words into her web, convincing the farmer that Wilbur is too special a pig to kill.

Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Three Dr. Seuss stories hosted by the Cat in the Hat.

Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?

Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.

Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil live with Sylvia Brown, their guardian. Money is tight and as the story opens, three boarders - a garage owner, a retired English professor, and a dance teacher - come to stay. Theo Dane, the dance teacher, has the girls accepted at her school by the formidable Madame, and the three go on the stage to help raise money. Each discovers her talents - Pauline as an actress, Petrova in fixing engines, and Posy as a dancer.

The misadventures of a little Peruvian bear living in London, England.

A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.

Wilby Daniels, now all grown up and running for district attorney, finds himself once again turning into a shaggy dog at inopportune moments.

Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.

A homebody hobbit in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon.

A psychopath terrorizes a high-school girl with threatening notes and phone calls.

A teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.

The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.

Tia and Tony visit Los Angeles, but he's quickly kidnapped by an evil scientist, leaving her to desperately search for him.

The cases of a pair of teen detective brothers and a teen girl amateur sleuth.

The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.