History WesternAnimation / AdventuresFromTheBookOfVirtues

''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227868/ Adventures from the Book of Virtues]]'' is an American TV series that ran from September 2, 1996 to November 2000 on Creator/{{PBS}}. Based on the bestselling [[AnAesop morality]] book ''The Book of Virtues'' by [[CausticCritic William J. Bennett]] (who also conceived this series), which was an anthology of fables, legends, historical speeches, and literary excerpts, it follows the adventures of 11-year-old Zach Nichols and 10-year-old Annie Redfeather as they run into typical ethical issues facing normal kids... and their TalkingAnimal friends at Plato's Peak are there to help them solve their problems with stories from The Book of Virtues.

* AnAesop:
** The purpose of the series was for Annie and Zach to learn lessons about virtue.
** The episode about "Moderation" has Zach going crazy with a new channel and watching every single movie he can. The overall aesop is that he is only in the wrong for watching ''too much'' of it - he's watching movies that teach good morals and aren't family-inappropriate, but he's doing so instead of doing chores and being social - if anything it comes off as a "Too much of a good thing."

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: WordOfGod confirmed that the plot of "Courage" is based on creator Bruce D. Johnson's hurdle incident when he was a kid.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The logo of the series, which depicts a lineup consisting of black silhouettes of the main characters standing against a red background with the show's title underneath them, along with a large yellow jungle font for "ADVENTURES", seems like it would fit well for an animated nature series, but the actual show itself is more about characters telling Christian values, fairy tales and other famous stories. However, the logo could be accurate, given that the show involves a Native American girl, wild animals that talk, and even a jungle-style theme song.

* OffModel: In certain shots of many episodes, you can see that a character's body part, clothes or articles of their skin or fur is filled in with the same color as their main body or clothes by mistake, and even in a few shots, one color disappears. Also, the designs on Zach and Annie are noticeably different in some episodes.

* Aristotle (also called "Ari"), a prairie dog, voiced by Creator/JimCummings. Keeper of the Book of Virtues.

* SesameStreetCred: The characters in the story segments are voiced by such big names as Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, Ed Begley, Jr., Creator/TimCurry, Shelley Duvall, Creator/ElijahWood and Creator/MarkHamill.

* MeddlingParents: Both Zach's and Annie's parents can be these sometimes.

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse; in "Integrity" (2000), Zach takes to school his dad's replica of his school report from Egypt, which causes a lot of embarrassment in the class when he reads it out loud. Annie lashes out on him for lying about it.
-->'''Annie:''' [[WhatTheHellHero How could you do that, Zach?! How could you lie about your project?!]]\\
'''Zach:''' I wasn't exactly lying, I just told the story.\\
'''Annie:''' ...You ''lied''!

** At the beginning of "Integrity" (2000), Zach lies in the class by telling them [[CriticalResearchFailure his dad's Egyptian replica]] of a school report he's taking, which makes Annie so furious at him.[[invoked]]