Book Bootleg was first published as a book written by
Alex Shearer and is published by Macmillan Children's Books on 4 July 2003.
TV series The adaptation, commissioned by BBC was made into a three-part series and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom and later in Australia. It has won a
British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Children's Drama, with the screenplay written by
Paul Smith.
Cast •
Martin Jarvis • Steven Geller •
Gemma Jones •
Louise Siversen as Mrs Spring •
Tim Robertson as Prime Minister Tom Turner •
Damien Bodie as Frankie Crawley
Manga The manga adaptation was done by Japanese
manga artist,
Aiji Yamakawa. It was serialized in
Shueisha's
shōjo monthly manga
magazine,
Bessatsu Margaret from its 2nd issue and ended on the 15th issue of the magazine in the year 2008. It has only one volume and was released in October 2008.
Anime The anime adaptation of the manga is written by Kiyoko Yoshimura and animated by
Production I.G with original character designs provided by Aiji Yamakawa. voice actor
Fumie Mizusawa and
Toshiyuki Toyonaga voices the main characters, Smudger Moore and Huntley Hunter respectively and Japanese singer,
Maaya Sakamoto voicing Carol Hunter. The adaptation's theme song and insert song are sung by Kana Nishino. The theme song's title is
Make Up and the insert song is titled as
Kirari and is released under
SME Records.
Cast • Smudger Moore –
Fumie Mizusawa • Huntley Hunter –
Toshiyuki Toyonaga • Louise Bubby –
Mikako Takahashi • Director of Headquarters –
Katsuyuki Konishi • Ron Moore –
Keiji Fujiwara • Joe Crawley –
Kenjirō Tsuda • Carol Hunter –
Maaya Sakamoto • Kylie Moore – Rie Nakagawa • John Blades –
Tatsuhisa Suzuki Source: ==References==