Sometimes I feel like a children’s literature news lint ball. I just roll about my merry way, picking up the stray bits of ephemera that happen to fall within my purview. Alternate metaphors: We would have also have accepted lint roller and/or dust bunny.
- Let us begin today with some movie news. If you’re like myself, you’re desperately searching the horizon for signs of the impending children’s/teen book-to-film adaptations so that you won’t be caught unawares when they hit theaters. A show of hands of all the librarians who had enough copies of How To Train Your Dragon in stock when that film took off. Yeah. I know. Me too. In any case, as far as I can tell the only things I’ve heard of lately are:
- Eclipse due out June 30th
- Ramona and Beezus (putting the “loose” in “loosely adapted”) due out July 23rd.
- Beastly due out July 30th
- Flipped due out August 6th.
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole due out September 24th.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One due out November 19th.
If you can think of any others, please let me know and I’ll add them accordingly. I should probably make this a permanent reference list. Then we could all stay on top of things.
- In other movie news director Neil Jordan has started to open up about the cinematic adaptation of Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.
- And finally, from Cynopsis Kids, some good news about Greg Taylor’s novel as well:
“Chris Columbus’ 1942 Pictures and South Korea’s CJ Entertainment unveil their production slate of three movies, two of which are targeted to kids/tweens/teen, per Variety . 1942 Pictures and CJ Entertainment entered into a three-year development deal in fall 2009. The two kid/tween/teen projects are feature film adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s (Coraline) novel The Graveyard Book and Greg Taylor ’s book Killer Pizza . The Graveyard Book movie will be written and directed by Neil Jordan. CJ Entertainment is set c0-finance and distribute Graveyard in South Korea and Japan. Wayfare Entertainment, Framestore and Gaiman. Killer Pizza is being written by Adam Green and will be projected by Raffaella de Laurentiis.”
Jasper Fforde is one of those authors who is so popular with children’s librarians and the like that I tend to forget half the time that he’s writing for adults. Well, apparently my confusion is soon to increase as he is penning his first children’s book. It’s going by the name The Last Dragonslayer which, understandably, bring to mind this. In any case, Monica Edinger at
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Hey, you forgot what will probably be the best children’s book adaptation of the summer–Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Wendelin Van Draanen’s book Flipped.
The Early Word website is a great place to find out about upcoming movies. Scroll down the right side of the site until you get to “Movie Tie-Ins.” They include upcoming releases as well as new deals (including a mention of the A Wrinkle in Time movie in 2011…apologies if you mentioned this on your blog already!). Not specific to children’s/YA titles, but they include whatever is out there.
Flipped! Good call. I’ll post it. And thanks for the Early Word info, Jennifer. Deals fall through, so I’m more interested in release dates, but I’ll check ‘em out for additional info.
Flipped goes into wide release August 27.
Don’t forget Voyage of the Dawn Treader (my fave Narnia book, btw) – out December 10, according to IMDB.
My SCBWI Marketing Survey is awash in white out. Editorial changes from my end consist of changes on email lists, label templates, fast file lists, and file cards.
“Beastly” has been pushed back to 2011, purportedly to avoid heavy summer competition.