Guess How Much I Love You (TV series)

Guess How Much I Love You
Also known as	Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare
Genre	Fantasy Adventure
Based on	Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney
Directed by	Steve Moltzen
Voices of	Ky Baldwin Matthew Jacob Wayne Andrew McFarlane Bella Soleil Mistry Nicholas Roye Monique Hore Angellique Perrin Stuart Allan Michaela Deen
Narrated by	Kate Fitzpatrick
Composers	Hylton Mowday Ryan Grogan
Country of origin	Australia Germany Singapore (season 1)
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	78
Production
Executive producers	Suzanne Ryan Gabriele Holzner Patricia Vasapollo Sebastian Debertin Tina Sicker Seng Choon Meng (season 1) Wong Chi Kong (season 1)
Producers	Suzanne Ryan Seng Choon Meng (season 1)
Running time	15 minutes per episode (approx.)
Production companies	SLR Productions Hessischer Rundfunk Scrawl Studios (season 1)
Original release
Network	ABC4Kids (Australia) Kika (Germany) TVOKids, Knowledge Kids and TFO (Canada) YLE (Finland) SVTB (Sweden)
Release	12 September 2011 (2011-09-12) – 24 December 2017 (2017-12-24)

Guess How Much I Love You (full title: Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare) is an Australian children's animated television series based on the series of books of the same name written by Sam McBratney.

Like in the original book, the series is set in the timeless watercolour landscape of mossy forests, lazy rivers and sunny meadows that is the idyllic home of Little Nutbrown Hare and his father, Big Nutbrown Hare.

Season 1 was co-produced by SLR Productions and Scrawl Studios for Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk, in association with TVOKids, Knowledge Kids, YLE and SVTB and with the participation of TFO, ABC Television and The Walt Disney Company Australia, and distributed by CCI Entertainment until 9 Story Media Group acquired CCI's children's and family library in 2013.

Season 2 was a co-production with SLR Productions, Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk, in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Cast and characters

• Home Plate Entertainment would do voice production services for the US dub, for 20 episodes.

Character	Australian dub	US dub
Narrator	Kate Fitzpatrick	Kat Cressida
Little Nutbrown Hare	Ky Baldwin	Matthew Jacob Wayne
Big Nutbrown Hare	Andrew McFarlane	Kirk Thornton
Little Field Mouse	Bella Soleil Mistry	Allie Carlton
Otter	Mark Owen-Taylor	Nicolas Roye
Little Redwood Fox	Monique Hore	Bianca Mercado
Little Grey Squirrel	Dylan Elchaar	Stuart Allan
Blue Bird	Kate Fitzpatrick	Angelique Perrin
Little White Owl	Monique Hore	Michaela Dean

Episodes

Season 1 (2011–12)

1. Treasure Hunt
2. March Like an Ant
3. Blue Wonder
4. No Place Like Home
5. Favourite Thing
6. Big Like You
7. What Sound Does the Moon Make?
8. Autumn's Here
9. Snow Blanket
10. Snowflake
11. Inside Day
12. Slip Slop Slide
13. Lucky Stick
14. It's Okay
15. Where's Little Redwood Fox?
16. Hidden Treasures
17. Moon Dance
18. Winter Coat
19. Winter Surprise
20. New Friend
21. Snow White Hare
22. Field of Flowers
23. Fly the Nest
24. Blossoms
25. The Scents of Spring
26. Can You Touch the Stars?
27. Follow Me
28. The Nest
29. Hide and Seek
30. Feather Your Nest
31. Fly Away Home
32. Rainy Days
33. A Hare's Tail
34. Where Does the River Go?
35. Leaf Shade
36. Bedtime Story
37. Hare's Eye View
38. Taste of Sunset
39. You for a Day
40. Big Storm
41. Plum Summer
42. All Fall Down
43. I Promise
44. Pumpkin Patch
45. Shadow Play
46. Finders Keepers
47. Surprise!
48. The Big Apple
49. Chestnut
50. I Want to Fly
51. Four Seasons
52. Wind Whistle

Season 2 (2015–16)

1. Little Green Worm
2. Make a Rainbow
3. The Favourite Tree
4. Spider's Web
5. Big Foot
6. Too Big, Too Small
7. Winter Moon
8. Up All Night
9. The Collection
10. The Lucky Egg
11. The Autumn Journey
12. The Song of Spring
13. Summer Strawberries
14. The Slippery Slide
15. Echo Game
16. Cloudy Meadow
17. Autumn Play
18. Now You See Me
19. Busy as a Bee
20. Birthday Surprise
21. Win or Lose
22. Summer Days
23. The Holly Branch
24. Topsy-Flopsy Day
25. Feast Day
26. Where Are My Acorns?

Specials (2017)

1. Christmas to the Moon and Back
2. An Enchanting Easter

Production

Before the series adaptation was made, the book's original publisher Walker Books partnered with British animation studio King Rollo Films in 2005 to produce short films based on Walker Books' picture books including Guess How Much I Love You.

Five years later on 16 September 2010, Australian animation studio SLR Productions announced it would adapt Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram's picture book Guess How Much I Love You originally published by British publisher Walker Books into a television adaptation with SLR Productions signed a co-production partnership with German children's channel KIKA and Hessischer Rundfunk to co-produce the upcoming Australian/German adaptation of the picture book. A week later on 20th of that month following SLR Productions's partnership with German television channel Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk to co-produce Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram's picture book Guess How Much I Love You, Canadian production & distribution studio CCI Entertainment joined the upcoming series now entitled Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Nutbrown Hare as a co-producer and became an Australian/German/Canadian co-production with CCI Entertainment acquiring worldwide distribution to the series outside of Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.

One month later on 4 October of that year, Singapore joined the upcoming series adaptation when SLR Productions joined forces with Singaporean animation company Scrawl Studios to co-produce the series adaptation of the picture book Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Nutbrown Hare as Scrawl Studios became a co-producer and would also handle animation services for the upcoming series adaptation.

In April 2014, Australian broadcasting network ABC Kids renewed SLR Productions' series adaptation Guess How Much I Love You – The Adventures of Nutbrown Hare for a second season with SLR Productions and German television network Kika and Hessischer Rundfunk returning to co-produce the series' second season while 9 Story Media Group now handling worldwide distribution and co-production to the series following 9 Story's acquisition of CCI Entertainment's childrens programming library.

Animation

When the series was announced, co-producer Scrawl Studios handled animation production services for the series adaptation's first season with funding from Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), however when the series was renewed for a second series, Scrawl Studios dropped the series as Philippines animation studio Top Draw Animation (who handled animation services & co-produce SLR's fellow series Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs and The Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets) had taken over animation services for the series' second series.

Broadcast

The series is shown on Kika in Germany, e-Junior in the United Arab Emirates, TVOKids, Knowledge Kids and TFO in Canada, ABC Kids in Australia, SVTB in Sweden, Disney Junior in the United States, Nickelodeon in France and the United Kingdom, and YLE in Finland.

Reception

The series was nominated for an AACTA Award for "Best Children's Television Series" in 2013.