Cirkeline (Eng: Circleen) is a Danish comic book character, created by Hanne Hastrup in 1957.
Between 1968 and 1971, the comic was adapted for a series of animated shorts, when Hanne Hastrup wrote the scripts and Jannik Hastrup animated and produced 19 short films for the Danish public TV station Danmarks Radio.
The last of the short films, Flugten Fra Amerika (Escape from America) has an anti-American message that prevented it from being broadcast.
The first Cirkeline book was published in 1969, and in 1998, she took the leap to the big cinema screen in the first of 3 feature films.
Several of the film's songs, written by Hans-Henrik Ley, have become classics - e.g. "Bim, Bam, Busse" ("Mile, Male, Mole"), "Snemusen Knud" ("Knut the Snowmouse") and "Cirkeline har fødselsdag" ("Circleen's birthday").