Yes, it does make me sad. I am looking forward to seeing The Golden Compass, but I know it will not be as wonderful as the book. I also did not picture LYra as looking quite like she does in the movie.
It also disturbs me that SO MANY books are being made into movies. On Dec 20, 2007 10:00 AM, TLP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone else get just a little sad when a great children's book > comes out as a movie? Is it my imagination or has Hollywood, which is > annoyingly sequel happy, rediscovered (Think "The Wizard of Oz") > something that we as educators already know. Many writers of children > and and young adult literature are respectful of their audience and > create sophisticated and worthwhile reads. Of course, the books > translate well to the screen and the recent "The Golden Compass" by > Philip Pullman was a good example and while understandably abridged > was well done overall. Yet I will never be able to love the screen > version as well as the one created in my head as my own director. I > know screen versions of books may encourage some children to read the > book and it's sequels too often they just "wait" for the next movie to > come out. I see that Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart" is coming out as a > movie and once again...I sighed and resigned myself to the inevitable! > What do you think? > -- P.S. I know I should underline the titles but "plain text" does not > allow that format. > Tena > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- - Heather "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." --Clarence Day "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little good evidence exists that there's any educational substance behind the accountability and testing movement." —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding. " —Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
