The Spider Riders anime-style battle series by Tedd Anasti and Patsy
Cameron-Anasti (who wrote The Smurfs cartoon) and published by
Newmarket Press will be given a lift beginning this Saturday,
June 17, when Kids WB! broadcasts the first of 52 episodes of
a Spider Riders animated TV show. The hour-long premiere begins at
10:30 a.m. On the following Saturday there will another one-hour
special, and on July 1, a two-hour "mini-marathon" airs. On July 8, the
series will begin airing on a regular basis--for half an hour an episode.
The first two books of the Spiders Riders trilogy have been published--Spider Riders Book One: The Shards of the Oracle (Newmarket, $5.99, 1557046522) and Spider Riders Book Two: Quest of the Earthen (Newmarket, $5.99, 1557046816). The third book, Spider Riders Book Three: Reign of the Soul Eater (Newmarket, $5.99, 1557047286), scurries out into the world in September.
The books feature Hunter Steele, "a young teen on a hiking trip who falls down a hole in the ground and is plunged into the Inner World and the Kingdom of Arachnia, located near the Earth's core. There, he finds himself unintentionally involved in an ongoing epic war between Arachnia's human race--the Turandot--and a giant insect race called the Insectors."
The TV series is a coproduction of Cookie Jar Entertainment, Japanese ad agency Yomiko and Japanese animation studio Bee Train. Naturally there's also a related online game, available at spiderriders.com.
The first two books of the Spiders Riders trilogy have been published--Spider Riders Book One: The Shards of the Oracle (Newmarket, $5.99, 1557046522) and Spider Riders Book Two: Quest of the Earthen (Newmarket, $5.99, 1557046816). The third book, Spider Riders Book Three: Reign of the Soul Eater (Newmarket, $5.99, 1557047286), scurries out into the world in September.
The books feature Hunter Steele, "a young teen on a hiking trip who falls down a hole in the ground and is plunged into the Inner World and the Kingdom of Arachnia, located near the Earth's core. There, he finds himself unintentionally involved in an ongoing epic war between Arachnia's human race--the Turandot--and a giant insect race called the Insectors."
The TV series is a coproduction of Cookie Jar Entertainment, Japanese ad agency Yomiko and Japanese animation studio Bee Train. Naturally there's also a related online game, available at spiderriders.com.