In case you haven’t met her before, Angelina is a sweet little British mouse who happens to enjoy ballet. She is imaginative, clever, and feisty. Along with her best friend Alice, Angelina is ready to take the stage (and take on the world), but she always manages to learn some important lessons along the way….
Category Archives: Books on Screen
Roald Dahl’s The Witches: Books on Screen
Roald Dahl is perhaps most famous for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but he has a delightfully creepy offering that you may want to squeeze into your Halloween plans: The Witches. As The Witches begins, we are quickly disabused of the notion that witches wear black pointy hats and fly around on broomsticks. Oh no….
Beauty and the Beast: Books on Screen — Giveaway
I distinctly remember the first time I saw Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. It was my senior year of high school, and I sat mesmerized as Belle and the Beast danced around the ballroom floor. Although I was never the princess type, the story was wonderfully told, and the animation was spellbinding. (Did you know…
The Princess Diaries: Books on Screen
When a book is made into a movie, I often insist on reading the book first. I just have this feeling that the book is the real thing, and I ought to know it before I see the film. Of course, for this to work, I have to know there’s a book. You see way…
Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue: Books on Screen
At 5 Minutes for Books, we are proud to feature books across many genres for children and adults. This week is all about highlighting children’s books, and in this case movies, and if you’re interested in other Books on Screen, feel free to check out the archives. Read the anchor post to find all of…
Day & Night: Books on Screen – Giveaway
If you were among the summer moviegoers packing into theaters filled with excited children awaiting the start of Pixar’s Toy Story 3, then you had the pleasure of viewing Day & Night, the animated short that preceded the main feature. I know that my kids and I cracked up at the antics of these two…
Nanny McPhee Returns: Books on Screen
This book is so much more than a movie tie-in designed to squeeze as much money as possible out of a children’s movie. This book stands alone quite well. The story is told creatively and in a different way, because a novel is different from a story on screen. The movie is told visually and…
Books on Screen: Coming Attractions
Think of this bit as a preview before the coming attractions. Fitting right? But I had to take the opportunity to share this with you: All week long redbox’s redblog is focusing on “from page to screen,” with Film Adaptation Week, and Erika Olson interviewed Dawn and me about our thoughts. I weighed in on…
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