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-->''"Something sets her apart, she will capture your heart! She's got a twinkle in her eye that you can't ignore! She'll be the one that you adore, and that's for sure! You've never met another girl like this before! She's got a twinkle her eye that you can't ignore!"''
-->--From the theme song

''Holly Hobbie & Friends'' was a series of specials focused on Holly Hobbie, a young girl from the city who visits the town of Clover to stay with her Aunt Jessie. Holly is accompanied by her two friends, Amy Morris and Carrie Baker, together known as the "Hey Girls." In each installment, they would have adventures with their friends and family and do their best to help others, from trying to restore the joy of life to a widow and her twin boys after the death of the father, to helping a shunned new girl at school find acceptance.

The series was a modern update of the Holly Hobbie franchise (created by author and illustrator Holly Hobbie). It was said within the specials that the Holly Hobbie seen in these releases was the great-granddaughter of the original Holly Hobbie. The series had a total of six different releases over four years, as well as a single limited-release music album featuring the songs of ''Christmas Wishes'', and numerous picture books, both ones based directly on the specials and unique releases such as ''Holly's Halloween Adventure'' and ''Let's Have a Tea Party!: A Scratch and Sniff Storybook''.

The first four episodes were 44-minute specials, with the last four episodes being shorter 22-minute stories. The seventh and eighth episodes saw Holly's family moving back to Clover permanently, almost as if the franchise was hoping to be made into an episodic television series, though this never materialized. The specials were, however, presented on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}[=/=]Nick Jr. The show theme song was performed by popular country artist Music/LeAnnRimes, who also provided the voice of the widow, Kelly Deegan, in ''Christmas Wishes''.

The specials in the series were:

* ''Holly Hobbie & Friends: Surprise Party'' (2006)
* ''Holly Hobbie & Friends: Christmas Wishes'' (2006)
* ''Holly Hobbie & Friends: Secret Adventures'' (2007)
* ''Holly Hobbie & Friends: Best Friends Forever'' (2007)
* ''Holly Hobbie & Friends: Fabulous Fashion Show'' - "Inside Out" and "Hats Off" (2008)
* ''Holly Hobbie & Friends: Marvelous Makeover'' - "Cover Girl" and "Reboot" (2009)

The releases remain generally available on DVD and have also been made available on certain download services, such as Amazon Instant Video and the Platform/PlayStationNetwork.

In 2018, the franchise received a live action reboot, helmed by Creator/WarnerBros. However said reboot is only airing in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and the rest of Europe.

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!!''Holly Hobbie & Friends'' includes examples of the following:

* AdaptationDistillation: A number of picture book releases that were somewhat distilled versions of the specials, though they tried their best to pack as much of the plot as possible into the limit of 24 pages.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Robbie to Holly at times, though his subplots often involve him having entirely separate adventures with his best friend Kyle.
* BeYourself: This is a key theme running through most of the franchise, but it shows up most particularly in ''Marvelous Makeover''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Amy gives Holly a ReasonYouSuckSpeech after the latter makes fun of her for believing in space aliens. Later, when Holly comes over to apologize, Amy glares at her and coldly says, "Oh, it’s you."
* BizarreTasteInFood: Amy likes peanut butter and tuna fish sandwiches.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Holly, Carrie, and Amy (in that order).
* BrokenBird: Kelly Deegan, until Holly helps restore her happiness by contriving to give her the solo at the Christmas pageant in ''Christmas Wishes''.
* ButNowIMustGo: ''Surprise Party'' ends with Holly and her mother leaving Clover and driving back to the city.
* CheerfulChild: The Deegan twins have managed to remain largely cheerful and innocent, despite their mother's desire to shun Christmas and things related to it following the death of her husband/their father. Also, Holly and her friends to some degree.
* ChristmasSpecial: ''Christmas Wishes''. And, rather unusually, a more traditional one for today's time, in a series that otherwise isn't overtly Christian. While it doesn't overtly peddle Christian themes, it does include a fully traditional Christian pageant, with an original manger song called "There's No Room at the Inn", and both Christian and secular Christmas songs, such as "Jingle Bells" and "O Holy Night".
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Amy can come across as being in Cloudcuckooland at times.
* DisneyAcidSequence: "Just Like You" from ''Surprise Party'', "Quelle Surprise" from ''Best Friends Forever''.
%%* EdutainmentShow
* {{Facepalm}}: This is Carrie's reaction in ''Christmas Wishes'' when the Hey Girls are coming up with ideas to help the Deegans have some Christmas cheer and Amy suggests that they could organize their sock drawer.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Played with in ''Marvelous Makeover'' - "Cover Girl," in which K.T., the new girl, is given a makeover, but the story is ultimately about accepting her for who she is.
* GreenEyedMonster: In ''Surprise Party'', Amy inadvertedly admits that she and Carrie are jealous that Holly can do three cartwheels in a row.
* HeyYou: The Hey Girls named themselves after once being addressed in this way.
* HypnoPendulum: In ''Secret Adventures'', Holly tries to hypnotize Carrie with a locket to try and cure her fear of the dark. [[HypnoFool She ends up hypnotizing Amy instead]].
* IconicOutfit: Classic Holly has her bonnet while modern Holly has her nice hat.
* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Granddaughter]]: In ''Surprise Party'', Holly is said to be a splitting image of Great Grandma Holly.
* IdiotBall: One of the main issues critics had with ''Fabulous Fashion Show'' was that Holly was passed the idiot ball and as a result was acting out of character and like a complete YesMan to Portia. The ball was then passed over to Amy and Carrie in ''Marvelous Makeover'' for most of the first story before it was finally threw away, but by then it was too late.
* IWantSong: "No Problem Bigger than Me" from ''Best Friends Forever''.
* LicensedGame: There was one decent licensed game for the Platform/NintendoDS.
* LiteralMinded: When Holly says that old man Scranton's "bark is worse than his bite," Amy thinks that Scranton bit Holly.
* MythologyGag: Holly's great-grandmother is a ShoutOut to her classic design, down to the bonnet.
* NewYorkIsOnlyManhattan: One episode has the characters going to New York City, in particular Manhattan. One of the characters is terrified of the stereotypical New York things like heavy traffic or the skyscrapers and had to learn to deal with it.
* NoAntagonist: The series lacks any type of villain whatsoever.
* PepTalkSong: "Think Of Something Nice" from ''Secret Adventures''; "Together" from ''Best Friends Forever''.
* PlayingSick: In ''Christmas Wishes'', Holly is said to have lost her voice due to a "freak scarf accident" and this is the reason why she has to give up her solo to the widow Kelly Deegan. In reality, it's just a scheme to restore happiness to this BrokenBird, and it works.
* PoorCommunicationKills: In "Surprise Party", Holly has Amy and Carrie help her with Aunt Jessie’s party and makes all of the decisions, not letting them have a say in the matter.
* ProtagonistAndFriends
* [[RememberTheNewGuy Remember The New Girl]]: Portia in ''Fabulous Fashion Show''. The entire group, including Holly, acted like they have always knew Portia despite there being no prior reference or appearance.
* SantaClaus: ''Christmas Wishes'' includes a subplot in which Holly's brother, Robby Hobbie, and his friend Kyle Morris try to convince everyone that Robby is Santa Claus when he takes a job as mall Santa. He has trouble getting it to work, due to his small stature and his use of the family pig, Cheddar, as his reindeer, despite his best attempt at a booming "ho ho ho" voice. One girl tells him that he can't be Santa because he's not fat and doesn't have any reindeer, and he tries to convince her that the pig is really is reindeer and that he's skinny because he's gone on a low-carb diet. "Fine! I won't leave you any cookies! I'll eat them all myself!" Despite this, he gets the Deegan twins (the sons of the widow in the film) to tell him their true Christmas wish, which, in a twist, isn't something like wanting their father back or seeing their mother happy (though they would like this), but rather to have an earwig farm.
* SequelGoesForeign: "Fabulous Fashion Show" generally takes place in the big city, where Holly lives.
* ShaggyDogStory: ''Best Friends Forever'', natch. The girls spent a lot of energy to prevent the house of a widow from being torn down. Only for DiabolusExMachina to destroy the house anyway.
* ShoutOut: In ''Christmas Wishes'', Amy describes Mr. Beech's display of little drummer boy dwarfs as "[[Film/AttackOfTheClones Attack of the Little Drummer Clones.]]"
* SliceOfLife: Yeah, the stories are of this type.
* SpeechImpediment: Amy has a slight but noticeable lisp when she speaks.
* SurpriseParty: The entire promise of the first release in the series, ''Surprise Party'', is about the Hey Girls and their families working together to plan and throw one for Holly's Aunt Jessie.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Holly predominantly wears blue.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Where the heck is Clover? Though it's implied that it may be somewhere in New England, as they travel to New York City by train in Fabulous Fashion Show.
* ZanyScheme: Holly and her friends get up to a number of them, though they actually often turn out to be rather inspired, and sometimes not so zany after all.
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