Universal and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will turn children's book series "Amelia Bedelia" into a live-action feature. Herman Parish, nephew of creator Peggy Parish, will write the script reports Variety.

Herman has continued writing the 40-year-old series since his aunt's death in 1988. "Amelia Bedelia" revolves around a housekeeper whose literal interpretations of instructions left by her employers always leads to trouble. Peggy Parish was an English teacher who began writing the series in 1963 to teach young students that words aren't always meant to be taken literally.

This is yet another major children's book adaptation for Hanks and Goetzman. Along with last year's "Polar Express" they are readying "Ant Bully" for a CGI animation pic for Warner Bros., they have Spike Jonze writing & directing an adaptation of the Maurice Sendak kid classic "Where the Wild Things Are," and are adapting Jeanne DuPrau young adult book "The City of Ember."

Thanks to 'Carl'