| The Great Book of Nature | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Orlando Corradi |
| Running time | 26 minutes |
| Production company | Mondo TV |
| Original release | |
| Network | Rai 2 |
| Release | June 7, 1999 – August 25, 2000 |
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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.
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]