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Mar 18, 2023 · BOOK: Call of the Wild by Jack London MOVIE: Call of the Wild. BOOK: Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman MOVIE: Catherine Called Birdy. BOOK: Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White MOVIE: Charlotte’s Web. BOOK: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl MOVIE: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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- The Secret Garden (1993) Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland gave audiences a widely celebrated adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 book. Not the only director to interpret this classic for the screen, her vision maintains the original's deliberate pace and dark themes, infusing it with a gorgeous Gothic atmosphere and sprinkling it with crucial notes of joy and humor.
- Matilda (1996) Roald Dahl's classic has spawned a celebrated audiobook read by Kate Winslet, a Broadway musical, and several film iterations—the best-known and most beloved of which has to be Danny DeVito's 1996 version.
- Little Women (2019) We tend to think that Greta Gerwig's innovative, impassioned adaptation is the best cinematic take on Louisa May Alcott's novel to ever hit the screen.
- Little Women (1994) Louisa May Alcott's famed accounting of four sisters growing together from childhood to adulthood was transformed into awards bait in this 1994 adaptation.
Film adaptations: The good, the bad, the ugly. If you’ve read a young adult (YA) dystopian or fantasy novel in the last ten or so years, you have more than likely also gone to a movie theater to see that novel adapted to the silver screen. There are countless examples: “The Maze Runner,” “The Hunger Games,” “Divergent,” “Harry ...
Jul 13, 2022 · According to Grewell, a quality adaptation stands on its own. The film must depend on the book enough to claim the status of "adaptation,” while the director takes creative liberties to make his mark in the world of film. For quality adaptations, Grewell recommends The Maltese Falcon, Lonesome Dove, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Apocalypse Now ...
Mar 10, 2023 · The Witches Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake. The Witches by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1983) There is no doubt that Roald Dahl’s tales lend themselves to entertaining film and television adaptations. His characters are larger-than-life and full of humour and horror in equal measure. The Witches is probably Dahl’s scariest story.
Jun 2, 2017 · Best kids' movies adapted from children's books. 1. Harry Potter series (2001–2011) Jaap Buitendijk. For a decade, fans of the Harry Potter book series were able to relive the magic and ...
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Jun 25, 2021 · Both depict the challenges a 10-year-old boy named Auggie—who’s living with craniofacial abnormality—experiences in a new school. The film has been viewed by legions of school children who also read the book in class. In a scene that takes place on Halloween, a disguised Auggie overhears new friend Jack Will confiding to other boys that ...
