Remember the Dr. Suess book The Cat in the Hat? (I avoided the movie version--they cast Mike Myers in the title role, when anyone can see William H. Macy has a greater resemblance!) Well, I actually preferred the sequel The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! Maybe that's because a lot of it took place outdoors in the snow.
I've read the whole series of Jalna books by Mazo de la Roche. It's sort of a European- style family saga, set among the Canadian squirearchy. The first books start in the middle chronologically, then she wrote a combination of prequels and sequels! (Upper Canada College and the Royal Winter Fair are recognizable without being named.) They made a TV series of it in 1972, which was widely considered a disaster, but my mother liked it. Few Canadians read the books these days, but they're still popular in France.
Some movies come in series. Even before Star Wars and Harry Potter, there were movie series like the 1930s detective Charlie Chan. I always liked Warner Oland in that rold, even though he was actually Swedish. (Such casting would be considered insensitive today.) They showed the movies in China, and when Oland visited that country Chinese people were surprised to learn that he wasn't one of them! He'd captured the essence of Chineseness.
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