All Creatures Great and Small (franchise) "James Herriot", and are set in the fictional town of "Darrowby", based on a combination of Thirsk, Richmond, Leyburn and Middleham.. In the books James Herriot work with fellow veterinary surgeons, Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, based on real-life counterparts, "Donald Sinclair" and his brother "Brian Sinclair" respectively. Wight also used the name "Helen Alderson" for his wife, Joan Danbury. In America the books were collected as pairs into omnibus volumes, as the publisher felt they were too short to publish independently. The title chosen for the first book in the series "All Creatures Great and Small" (and subsequently one of
Creatures (video game series) targeted at younger children (ages 6–9), "Creatures Adventures" dropped the complex interface of the main series in favour of brighter graphics and a more childlike atmosphere. The second game in the younger children's series, "Creatures Playground" (released the same year), could be connected to Adventures to create an even bigger world to explore. It has a theme park for the creatures, including mini-games like whack-a-mole. The "Creatures" concept was made into three different games for consoles: "Creatures" for the Game Boy Advance and "Creatures" and "" for PlayStation. In the PlayStation games, the hand is replaced by a fairy named