Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids is a series of books by Jamie Rix and a TV series produced for ITV. The original TV series was based on the award winning collections of cautionary tales by Jamie Rix. Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids, Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids and More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. The series was narrated by Nigel Planer and animated by Sara and Simon Bor of Wolves Witches & Giants fame.
In all, six series and a New Year's special ran from 1999 to 2007 on ITV and Grizzly Tales was consistently one of the highest rated children's animation shows on the channel. In 2011, a new 26 re-invention of the show was produced for Nickelodeon UK and NickToons UK. It was awarded Best Children's Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2012.
The BAFTA-nominated show has picked up many other awards including Animated Series and Children's Choice at the British Animation Awards, and Children's Animated series at Cartoons on the Bay.
The show is available on DVD through ITV in the UK, Porchlight in the USA and Time Life in Australia. Orion Audiobooks have also released full CD recordings of the books, read by Rupert Degas. Audio Go have re-released the original Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids audio book on CD and download.
A lot of spiders die in the episode A tangled web The first spider dies by being put in A Draining bathtub drainThe second spider dies by being Burned alive by a flashlight put under the jar they were captured in and The final spider death in the episode happens after the second death where the pregnant spider's babies also die with them and come out as ghosts and in Monty's python monty feeds His python his sister's Parrot cat-and-dog and a horse
In ‘Wolf Child’ a kid acts like a baby to get attention from his parents,and vomits in the car on purpose,this isnt really heard though,just seen afar coming out of the car door,but there’s a shot after of him with vomit around his mouth and on him
A majority of the episodes has a kid die, althrough it's for their misbehaviour (stealing, shouting, throwing tantrums, blackmailing, being disrespectful, refusing to sleep, etc.)
In ‘Wolf Child’ when the kid is turnt into a baby,he is seen laying down and pissing himself.However,this only lasts for 3 seconds or so and is purely for comical effect.