There's a childrens' books author, Enid Blyton, my favorite series by her is the Adventure series (she has several series out but that's the one I want, don't care for the others she's written, sorry)
Shane by Jack Schaefer. Great book, great movie, I think it'd be a great anime series.
When the movie League of Extraordinary Gentlemen came out, I hit my library and read the books the characters came from, and I must say that the Allan Quatermain adventures by H. Rider Haggard would be fun as anime, too. And no, the lead character need NOT look like Sean Connery
