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