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Children's books you would like to see come to the big screen.

Posted: 5/2/09 at 12:43am

I am very excited for Where the Wild Things Are to come to the movies. Also very intrigued to see that they are making Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs into a movie (have not read that book since the second grade!)


If you could have a favorite childhood book of yours come to life on the big screen, what would it be and who would you have as it's star?

Children's books you would like to see come to the big screen.


Miss Nelson is Missing was definitely one of my favorites growing up. Our kindergarten teacher would always read this book to us. I would have Amy Poehler as Miss Nelson and Viola Swamp.


Children's books you would like to see come to the big screen.


Another classic, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. I would like to see this animated, using the original illustrations from the book.



#2

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Posted: 5/2/09 at 1:13am

Miss Nelson is Missing was one of my favorite Reading Rainbow episodes.

I'd love to see a film adaptation (live action or animated) of The Ordinary Princess.
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#4

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Posted: 5/2/09 at 2:38am

It's already been made and remade.

First with Ingrid Bergman:
re: Children's books you would like to see come to the big screen.


Then with Lauren Bacall:
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#5

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Posted: 5/2/09 at 2:42am

OOh, I have another one.

I've always wanted to see Disney tackle "The Twelve Dancing Princesses". That was a favorite of mine when I was little. With them returning to the fairy tale with "Rapunzel" and "The Princess and the Frog" maybe "Twelve Dancing Princesses" isn't so far away.

The only "film" version I ever saw of the story was an episode of "Shelley Duvall's Fairie Tale Theatre" with Lesley Ann Warren as the eldest sister. It's a great but little produced story.
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Posted: 5/2/09 at 6:29pm

For all my seventies kids: THE SILVER CROWN by Robert C. O'Brien. And why haven't there been any Judy Blume adaptations?
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Posted: 5/3/09 at 1:42am

There have been two Blume adaptations that I know of. There was a made-for-tv movie version of "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great". I don't remember what channel it was on but I do recall seeing it a few different Saturday mornings. The other one wasn't really a movie but there was a Saturday morning tv show called "Fudge" with Eve Plumb as the mother.

ETA the link. Seems there was a tv version of "Forever" as well.
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Posted: 5/3/09 at 2:07am

Borstal,I agree with you...why havent their been any Judy Blume films. That is surprising. There was the RAMONA television series that I loved with Sarah Polley. Was Ramona, Judy Blume.

Id also love to see Corduroy on the big screen. He is sooo cute. :)
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#12

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Posted: 5/3/09 at 2:21am

Ramona was Beverly Cleary
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Posted: 5/3/09 at 2:37am

I don't think the kid on the front cover does. Based on his expression he's having some trouble
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Posted: 5/3/09 at 2:48am

Eris, it's a Japanese book so the kid is naturally Asian. His face is supposed to look that way. :-P
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Posted: 5/3/09 at 11:09am

I have often wondered if John Hughes had read a few Blume books before he started in on his teen films of the eighties.
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Posted: 5/3/09 at 4:16pm

I grew up reading Judy Blume and I enjoyed her books but I'm not 100% sure they could work as big screen adaptations. I think made for tv movies might be the better way to go for her work. Just like the "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great" version I previously mentioned.
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Posted: 5/3/09 at 5:58pm

I'd like to see a good film version of THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH. That Chuck Jones film just doesn't work at all. I rather wish TIm Burton had done this instead of his remake of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, as much as I enjoyed that.
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Posted: 5/4/09 at 11:10am

I'd like to see a good film version of THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH.

I second that! My favorite children's book of all time.

I'd like to add two extraordinary Daniel Pinkwater books that were highly influential in my childhood:

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Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars

But I would be also be happy with film treatments of The Worms of Kukumlima or The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death.

And if you're not familiar with the works of Daniel Pinkwater, you should be. Shame on you.

I was going to say The Fantastic Mr. Fox, but that is in the works. I also remember a wonderful book about some mice that lived in a department store (Macys?) during Christmas. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the book, though. And I've heard there is a film version of Abel's Island, but I've never seen it. Does anyone know if it is any good?
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