List of children's books made into feature films
This is a list of works of children's literature that have been made into feature films. The title of the work and the year it was published are both followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.
Fiction
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Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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Daisy-Head Mayzie (1995), Dr. Seuss | Daisy-Head Mayzie (1995) (TV) |
Danny, the Champion of the World (1975), Roald Dahl | Danny, the Champion of the World (1989) (TV) |
The Darkest Minds (2012), Alexandra Bracken | The Darkest Minds (2018) |
A Day with Wilbur Robinson (1990), William Joyce | Meet the Robinsons (2007) |
The Dark is Rising Sequence (1965–1977) (series), Susan Cooper | The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007) |
David Copperfield (1849–1850) (serial) (1850) (novel), Charles Dickens | David Copperfield (1911) David Copperfield (1913) David Copperfield (1922) David Copperfield (1935) David Copperfield (1956–1966) (TV) (serial) David Copperfield (1966) (TV) (serial) David Copperfield (1969) David Copperfield (1974) (TV) (serial) David Copperfield (1986) (TV) (serial) David Copperfield (1993) (TV) David Copperfield (1999) (TV) David Copperfield (2000) (TV) |
The Devil's Arithmetic (1988), Jane Yolen | The Devil's Arithmetic (1999) (TV) |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007–present) (series), Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007) * Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2008) ** Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2009) *** Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2014) |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010–present) (series) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) * Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011) ** Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) *** Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017) |
Divergent trilogy (2011-2013) (series), Veronica Roth Divergent (2011) *Insurgent (2012) **Allegiant (2013) |
Divergent (2014) *The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) **The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016) |
Doctor Dolittle (1920–1934) (series), Hugh Lofting The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)* * Doctor Dolittle's Circus (1924)* * For the 1967 original film only. |
Doctor Dolittle (1967) Dr. Dolittle (1998) * Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) ** Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006) *** Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief (2008) **** Dr. Dolittle Million Dollar Mutts (2009) *****Dolittle (2020) |
Don Quixote (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605–1615), Miguel de Cervantes | Adventures of the Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote (1903) Don Quijote (1908) Don Quichotte (1908) Don Quixote (1915) Don Quixote (1923) Don Quixote (1927) Don Quixote (1933) Don Quichotte (1933/I) Don Quichotte (1933/II) Don Quixote (1934) Don Quixote de la Mancha (1947) Don Quixote (1955–1969, unfinished) Don Quixote (1957) Don Quixote's Children (1965) Don Chisciotte e Sancho Panza (1969) Man of La Mancha (1972) The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973) (TV) The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (1976) Don Chisciotte (1983) (TV) Don Quixote of La Mancha (1987) Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992) Don Quixote (2000) (TV) Don Quixote, Knight Errant (2002) Don Quixote (2010) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (TBA 2014) |
Dot and the Kangaroo (1899), Ethel Pedley and Frank P. Mahony | Dot and the Kangaroo (1977) *Around the World with Dot (1981) **Dot and the Bunny (1983) ***Dot and the Koala (1984) ****Dot and Keeto (1985) *****Dot and the Whale (1986) ******Dot and the Smugglers (1987) *******Dot Goes to Hollywood (1987) ********Dot in Space (1994) |
Dream Days (1898), Kenneth Grahame | The Reluctant Dragon (1941) |
The DUFF (2010), Kody Keplinger | The DUFF (2015) |
Dumbo, the Flying Elephant (1939), Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl | Dumbo (1941) Dumbo (2019) |
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Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), Rosemary Sutcliff | The Eagle (2011) |
Ella Enchanted (1997), Gail Carson Levine | Ella Enchanted (2004) |
Eloise (1955–2002) (series), Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight | Eloise at the Plaza (2003) (TV) * Eloise at Christmastime (2003) (TV) Eloise in Paris (TBA 2013) Eloise in Africa (TBA 2014) |
Enders Game (1985), Orson Scott Card | Enders Game (2013) |
Eragon (2003), Christopher Paolini | Eragon (2006) |
Escape to Witch Mountain (1968), Alexander Key | Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) * Return from Witch Mountain (1978) ** Beyond Witch Mountain (1982) (TV) Escape to Witch Mountain (1995) ** * Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
Ethel and Ernest (1998), Raymond Briggs | Ethel and Ernest (TBA 2013) |
Every Day (2012), David Levithan | Every Day (2018) |
Everything Everything (2015), Nicola Yoon | Everything Everything (2017) |
Eye of the Wolf (1984), Daniel Pennac | Eye of the Wolf (1998), (short film) |
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G
Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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The Ghosts (1969), Antonia Barber | The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972) |
The Giver (1993), Lois Lowry | The Giver (2014) |
The Golden Compass (1996), Philip Pullman | The Golden Compass (2007) |
The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino (1936), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy | The Adventures of Buratino (1959) The Adventures of Buratino (1975) |
Gnomes (a.k.a. Leven en werken van de Kabouter) (1977), Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet | Gnomes (1980) |
The Gnomobile (1937), Upton Sinclair | The Gnome-Mobile (1967) |
Great Expectations (1860–1861) (serial) (1861) (novel), Charles Dickens | Great Expectations (1917) Great Expectations (1922) Great Expectations (1934) Great Expectations (1946) Great Expectations (1967) (TV) (mini) Great Expectations (1974) (TV) Great Expectations (1981) (TV) (serial) Great Expectations (1983) Great Expectations (1989) (TV) (mini) Great Expectations (1998) Great Expectations (1999) (TV) Great Expectations (2011) (TV) |
Granpa (1984), John Burningham | Granpa (1989) |
Green Eggs and Ham (1960), Dr. Seuss | Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973) (TV) |
Green Grass of Wyoming (1946), Mary O'Hara | Green Grass of Wyoming (1948) |
De Griezelbus (1991–2006) (series), Paul van Loon | Gruesome School Trip (2005) |
The Guardians of Childhood (2011–present) (series), William Joyce | Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
Guardians of Ga'Hoole (2003–2008, 2010) (series), Kathryn Lasky | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) |
La Guerre des boutons (The War of the Buttons) (1912), Louis Pergaud | War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) (1962) War of the Buttons (1994) |
The Gumazing Gum Girl! (2013–present) (series), Rhode Montijo | The Gumazing Gum Girl! (TBA) |
One Hundred Years Ahead (Сто лет тому вперед) (1976), Kir Bulychev | Guest from the Future (Гостья из будущего) (1985) (TV) |
Gulliver's Travels (1726), Jonathan Swift | Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants (1902) The New Gulliver (1935) Gulliver's Travels (1939) The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965) Gulliver's Travels (1977) Gulliver's Travels (1996) (TV) (mini) Gulliver's Travels (2010) |
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Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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I Am Number Four (2010), Pittacus Lore | I Am Number Four (2011) |
I Capture the Castle (1948), Dodie Smith | I Capture the Castle (2003) |
I Want a Dog (1987), Dayal Kaur Khalsa | I Want a Dog (2003) |
If I Stay (2009), Gayle Forman | If I Stay (2014) |
The Incredible Journey (1961), Sheila Burnford | The Incredible Journey (1963) Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) * Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996) |
The Indian in the Cupboard (1980), Lynne Reid Banks | The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) |
Inkheart (2003), Cornelia Funke | Inkheart (2009) |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), Brian Selznick | Hugo (2011) |
The Iron Man (1968), Ted Hughes | The Iron Giant (1999) |
Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), Scott O'Dell | Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964) |
The Island on Bird Street (1981), Uri Orlev | The Island on Bird Street (1997) |
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006), Ned Vizzini | It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) |
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K
Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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Kaytek the Wizard (1933), Janusz Korczak | Kaytek the Wizard (1993) |
King Matt the First (1922), Janusz Korczak | King Matt the First (1958) King Matt the First (1997) (TV) Little King Macius (2002) (TV) Król Maciuś Pierwszy (2007) |
The King's Damosel (1976), Vera Chapman | Quest for Camelot (1998) |
Koziołek Matołek (1932–34), Kornel Makuszyński and Marian Walentynowicz | Dziwne przygody Koziołka Matołka (Strange Adventures of Silly Billy a/k/a Strange Adventures of Matołek the Billy Goat) (1969–71) |
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Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | Ulysses (1955) The Odyssey (1987) Ulysses' Gaze (Greek: Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα, translit. To Vlemma tou Odyssea) (1995) The Odyssey (1997) (TV) (mini) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2007) (TV) |
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841) (serial) (1841) (novel), Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop (1911) The Old Curiosity Shop (1912) The Old Curiosity Shop (1914) The Old Curiosity Shop (1921) The Old Curiosity Shop (1934) The Old Curiosity Shop (1975) The Old Curiosity Shop (1979) (TV) (mini) The Old Curiosity Shop (1984) The Old Curiosity Shop (1995) (TV) The Old Curiosity Shop (2007) (TV) |
Old Yeller (1956), Fred Gipson | Old Yeller (1957) * Savage Sam (1963) |
Oliver Twist (1837–1839), Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist (1909) Oliver Twist (1922) Oliver Twist (1933) Oliver Twist (1948) Oliver! (1968) Oliver Twist (1982) Oliver & Company (1988) Oliver Twist (1997) Twist (2003) Boy called Twist (2004) Oliver Twist (2005) |
On Stranger Tides (1987), Tim Powers | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) |
One Thousand and One Nights (12th century), various Indian storytellers | Le Palais des Mille et une nuits (1905) The Thief of Bagdad (1924) The Thief of Bagdad (1940) 1001 Arabian Nights (1959) Il fiore delle Mille ed una notte (Arabian Nights) (1974) Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights (1994) |
The Outsiders (1967), S.E. Hinton | The Outsiders (1983) |
Ozma of Oz (1907), L. Frank Baum | Return to Oz (1985) Ozma of Oz (1986–1987) (TV) Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (1987) |
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Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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The Ugly Dachshund (1938), Gladys Bronwyn Stern | The Ugly Dachshund (1966) |
Uncle Remus (1881), Joel Chandler Harris | Song of the South (1946) Coonskin (1975) The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (2006) |
Undercover Cat (1963), Gordon Gordon and Mildred Gordon | That Darn Cat! (1965) That Darn Cat (1997) |
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Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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Vampire Academy (2007), Richelle Mead | Vampire Academy (2014) |
The Velveteen Rabbit (1922), Margery Williams | The Velveteen Rabbit (1973) Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit (1984) (TV) The Velveteen Rabbit (1985) (TV) The Velveteen Rabbit (1988) The Velveteen Rabbit (2007) The Velveteen Rabbit (2009) The Velveteen Rabbit (2012) |
Vicke Viking (1963), Runer Jonsson | Vicky the Viking (2009) |
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard (The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later) (1847–1850), Alexandre Dumas, père | The Iron Mask (1929) The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) |
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) (1870), Jules Verne | 20,000 lieues sous les mers (1907) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1972) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1973) Captain Nemo (Капитан Немо) (1975) The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) (TV) The Black Hole (1979) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) (television film released by Hallmark) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) (television film released by Village Roadshow Pictures) Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2002) 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
Voyage au centre de la Terre (A Journey to the Center of the Earth) (1864), Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Viaje al centro de la Tierra (1978) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993) (TV) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999) (TV) Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) * Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) (TV) Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) (Direct-to-DVD release by The Asylum) |
Les Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras (The Adventures of Captain Hatteras) (1866), Jules Verne | The Conquest of the Pole (1912) |
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Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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The Year of the Horse (1965), Eric S. Hatch | The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968) |
The Yearling (1938), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling (1946) The Yearling (1994) (TV) |
Z
Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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Z for Zachariah (1974), Robert C. O'Brien | Z for Zachariah (2015) |
Zathura (2002), Chris Van Allsburg | Zathura (2005) |
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1996), Marilyn Sadler | Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999) * Zenon: The Zequel (2001) (TV) ** Zenon: Z3 (2003) (TV) |
Non-fiction
Children's book(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
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The Diary of a Young Girl (a.k.a. Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 (The Annex: Diary Notes from 12 June 1942 – 1 August 1944)) (1947), Anne Frank | The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) The Diary of Anne Frank (1967) (TV) The Diary of Anne Frank (1980) (TV) The Diary of Anne Frank (1987) (TV) (serial) The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988) (TV) Laatste Zeven Maanden van Anne Frank (1988) (TV) Anne Frank Remembered (1995) (TV) Anne no nikki (1995) Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV) (mini) The Short Life of Anne Frank (2001) (TV) The Diary of Anne Frank (2009) (TV) (serial) Mi Ricordo Anna Frank (Memories of Anne Frank) (2010) (TV) |
My Dog Skip (1995), Willie Morris | My Dog Skip (2000) |
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