A kids’ movie just isn’t produced any more without all sorts of tie-ins. For a movie that we really enjoyed (as we did this one), I think of a tie-in as something to help us remember the movie — a sort of souvenir. As part of my press junket goodie bag, I received a few…
Category Archives: Books on Screen
Books on Screen: Let the Great World Spin/Man on Wire
Several months ago, I listened to the audiobook of Colum Mcann’s Let the Great World Spin, a novel which shares the story of several different characters, specifically their responses to the wire walking that Philippe Petit’s unsanctioned high wire walk between the twin towers in 1974. Immediately, I was pulled in by Colum McCann’s writing…
Books on Screen: Despicable Me movie
Again, I’m sort of bending the rules with this column. I was able to see a preview of Despicable Me on a Universal-sponsored Mom Blogger press junket (click through to 5 Minutes for Mom to read some more details and get a sneak peek of the fun interviews to come this week). It’s a truly…
Books on Screen: Stranger in the Woods
You might be aware of the book Stranger in the Woods. The photography of Carol R. Sams II and Jean Stoick, a husband and wife team, is striking, to be sure. Their books are referred to as “A Photographic Fantasy” and indeed they are! These two photographers love nature in the woods and their books…
Books on Screen: The Fabulous Beekman Boys
The Fabulous Beekman Boys premieres on Planet Green (a part of the Discovery Channel family) on June 16. It is the story of Josh and Brent, two boys from Manhattan who are trying to grow a life and a business in New York state. I previewed two episodes of the show, and read the book…
Books on Screen: Presumed Innocent
In the 1990′s the legal thriller was king. There probably aren’t many people who were reading in the 90′s, whether confirmed bookworms or summer vacation readers, who haven’t read a John Grisham book. But before any of John Grisham’s bestsellers then movie blockbusters, there was a 1987 book and 1990 movie — Presumed Innocent. I…
Books on Screen: Molly Ringwald movies
In Molly Ringwald’s new book Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick, she looks back on her teen years that she spent on the big screen. Molly Ringwald is about my age, and so I grew up watching her, and the John Hughes movies that she starred in are so typically…
Books on Screen Stage:
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
There are some picture books that I’ve read hundreds of times over the years, either as the teacher reading to a group of preschoolers or as the mom snuggling with her own brood. When I can read a story again and again (times 100!), and still do it with joy and gusto, I believe it…
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