{"id":8843,"date":"2014-06-10T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=8843"},"modified":"2014-06-10T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T13:52:09","slug":"dream-book-to-film-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/dream-book-to-film-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Book-to-Film Adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several forces combined to create this post: a recent viewing of the excellent film adaptation of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars<\/em><\/a>, coming up for air midway through a book I desperately wish someone would turn into a movie<\/a>, new footage<\/a> released from the upcoming TV series<\/a> of another book I love, and the onslaught of summer reading sign-ups making me long for the silent ritual of popcorn, seltzer, smuggled Sweedish fish, and the movies.<\/p>\n

The phenomenal box office success of #TFioS has already lead to mainstream articles <\/a>marveling at the power<\/a> of readers to influence culture. Linda Holmes’ excellent article for NPR, The Muscle-Flexing, Mind-Blowing Book Girls Will Inherit the Earth<\/a>\u00a0is just the most heart-warming example of the newly-recognized ability readers have to shape the media we consume on television, in the movies, and at the theater.<\/p>\n

With all that being said, fellow Book Girls (and Book Guys!), which children’s books do you think we should use our cultural cache to get turned into movies? Here are a couple\u00a0I would love to see in theaters in the next few years:<\/p>\n

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Merrie Haskell is one of the brightest new voices in MG fantasy, and this, her first foray into the genre, would make an EXCELLENT movie.\u00a0The Princess Curse<\/em><\/a> takes not one but two well-known fairytales (The Twelve Dancing Princesses<\/em> and Beauty and the Beast<\/em>) and combines them with vivid historical settings, a colorful host of well-developed characters, and stakes whose\u00a0consequences feel real. Between the smart, charming heroine and its fairytale roots\u00a0(and with the box office success of similar films like\u00a0Maleficent<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Snow White and the Huntsman<\/a>)<\/em>, The Princess Curse<\/em> has Hollywood written all over it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"bn1\"<\/a>Here’s another MG book screaming (operatically) for a film treatment. Better Nate Than Ever<\/em> <\/a>boasts a\u00a0lovable hero, a plot brimming with quality humor and real pathos, and a focus (trying to make it on Broadway) rarely (if ever?) explored in films for kids.<\/p>\n

Our profession’s recent high-profile focus on diversity in books for children walks hand-in-hand with a demanding need for real characters of diversity in visual media for children. And if money is all that talks in Hollywood, the success of shows like Glee<\/em> <\/a>and the arrival this fall of Alan Menken’s\u00a0Galavant<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(!!!!!) proves the appetite for humorous, heartfelt, musical stories has never gone away. I think Better Nate: The Movie would be a surefire hit.<\/p>\n

What about you? Which of your favorite MG books should be brought to the big screen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several forces combined to create this post: a recent viewing of the excellent film adaptation of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, coming up for air midway through a book I desperately wish someone would turn into a movie, new footage released from the upcoming TV series of another book I love, and the onslaught of summer reading sign-ups making me long for the silent ritual of popcorn, seltzer, smuggled Sweedish fish, and the movies. The phenomenal box office success of #TFioS has already lead to mainstream articles marveling at the power of readers to influence culture. Linda Holmes’ excellent article for NPR, The Muscle-Flexing, Mind-Blowing Book Girls Will Inherit the Earth\u00a0is just the most heart-warming example of the newly-recognized ability readers have to shape the media we consume on television, in the movies, and at the theater. With all that being said, fellow Book Girls (and Book Guys!),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[236,210,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-elisabeth-gattullo","category-books-2","category-childrens-literature","category-evaluation-of-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}