The Great Book of Nature (Italian: Il Grande Libro della Natura) is an animated children's television series produced by Mondo TV and SEK Studio in 1999. It is composed of non-sequential episodes hosted by a bear, this series features various kind of creatures, such as fish, insects and birds, while depicting their different habitats - whether sea, land or sky. At the end of each episode, the audience is treated to instructive sets of questions and answers that teach young viewers about a given creature's various kind of behaviours.[1] There are 54 different episode of it of different stories.[2] Before being compiled into a television series, the animated shorts were likely used as theatrical propaganda cartoons in North Korea.
| The Great Book of Nature | |
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| Genre | Adventure Drama Fantasy Anthology Educational Children's television series |
| Created by | Orlando Corradi |
| Music by | John Sposito |
| Country of origin | Italy North Korea |
| Original languages | English Italian |
| No. of episodes | 54 |
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| Producer | Orlando Corradi |
| Running time | 26 minutes |
| Production company | Mondo TV |
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| Original network | Rai 2 |
| Original release | June 7, 1999 (1999-06-07) – August 25, 2000 (2000-08-25) |
This show was telecast in India in Just Kids! on Sahara TV, and in Arab world on Spacetoon, and in Poland on TVP3 to summer-autumn (July–October) 2000 and winter-spring (January–April) 2001 and also in Russia on TRC Petersburg (St-Petersburg, 3ch VHF1) to winter-spring (or February–March for Sure) 2004 and Moscow channel "Stolica" (VHF3) to winter (December–January) 2004-2005.
This show was shown in various countries in different languages after Mondo TV went public.[3]
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