Books to Movies

This year is a great year for children's books being made into movies.  There are new movie versions of Paddington Bear, Peter Rabbit and A Wrinkle in Time all coming out in 2018.  This week, I'm sharing some of my favorite children's books that have been made into movies . . .

The BFG by Roald Dahl
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.


More Books --
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo


Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through February 23, 2018.