So, The Spiderwick Chronicles released yesterday. Did anyone see it yet? I haven't, but I'm excited to go.
TSC got me thinking about other children's books that could be coming to the big screen in 2009 and beyond. I did some digging and here are a few of the possibilities:
Life of Pi (book by Yann Martel)
Girl of the Moment (book by Lizabeth Zindel)
Beastly (book by Alex Flinn)
Ramona (We're probably all familiar with Ramona Quimby!)
Almost Home (book by Jessica Blank)
The Alchemyst (book by Michael Scott)
The Lightning Thief (book by Rick Riordan)
Pretty exciting, huh? I adored Beastly and it would make a fantastic movie for sure.
Know of any others that I didn't mention? When I was searching, I noticed that a lot of upcoming kids movies had one glaring theme--girl power. Yep, girls are taking bigger, stronger roles and being adventurers, princesses and cowgirls. Yay for girls doing it all!
Also, I wanted to thank everyone who e-mailed me or found me through my contact page since The Writer article came out. Thanks so much for your kind words and I'm glad to have made so many new contacts over the past week because of it. :)
TGIF! What are your weekend plans? I've got to edit and update my poor, ignored contact roster. I've got a thousand sticky notes with people's names and info that haven't made it into the book. Sigh.
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By: Jessica Burkhart,
on 2/15/2008
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By: Kate Hall,
on 10/31/2007
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This novella is more like the Card I know and love. His last few books have left something to be desired, but this makes you realize he can still write. It is a short story about Zeck, a boy in Ender’s toon, that is nonviolent and does not want to go to Battle School. A confrontation happens when he actually gets there that causes religious feelings to escalate. This is a great sideline story to the overarching tale of Ender. I loved reading about the characters we know and love in a new and different setting. Obviously a novel cannot encompass ever detail that happens during a time frame (imagine how long they’d be!) but there are certain books where reading stories such as this help enrich the stories previously told. I loved this short read and hope there will be more like it in the future. But I still have to ask, “Whatever happened to his last Women of Genesis book?”
By: Rebecca,
on 4/20/2007
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Happy Friday everyone! I’m particularly happy today because the sun is supposed to come out this weekend and I am quite sick of rain. Today we present more stimulating work from The Buffalo Poets. Be sure to check back all day to read their work!
Weekend plans - revision revision revision and look through SUMMER clothes because we're headed someplace warm a week from tomorrow!
I can't wait!
Ooh, warm weather in the middle of winter is the best! Have fun! :)
Prince Caspian comes out this year, and I know they're working on a movie of James Owen's HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS.
And thanks for having me the other day, Jessica. It was fun!
Prince Caspian looks so, so good. Wow, the kids have really grown up!
It was great to have you, Christine! :)
Although not children's books, two movies I'll absolutely have to see are The Lovely Bones and The Time Traveler's Wife - those were amazing books :)