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Mar 18, 2023 · Want some easy motivation to get your kids reading more? Try movies based on books! Read the book before the movie or afterward, and use these books made into movies to inspire more reading! This has helped many reluctant readers I’ve taught –including my own two kids.
- The Secret Garden (1993) Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland gave audiences a widely celebrated adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 book. Not the only director to interpret this classic for the screen, her vision maintains the original's deliberate pace and dark themes, infusing it with a gorgeous Gothic atmosphere and sprinkling it with crucial notes of joy and humor.
- Matilda (1996) Roald Dahl's classic has spawned a celebrated audiobook read by Kate Winslet, a Broadway musical, and several film iterations—the best-known and most beloved of which has to be Danny DeVito's 1996 version.
- Little Women (2019) We tend to think that Greta Gerwig's innovative, impassioned adaptation is the best cinematic take on Louisa May Alcott's novel to ever hit the screen.
- Little Women (1994) Louisa May Alcott's famed accounting of four sisters growing together from childhood to adulthood was transformed into awards bait in this 1994 adaptation.
Mar 17, 2022 · Sign up to receive weekly roundups, kidlit resources, and more! I'll send you my printable list of 100 best middle grade books to start! Not sure what to watch for family movie night? Here's a huge list of classic and contemporary children's books adapted into movies for you!
- Holes Stanley Yelnats is fighting his family’s generational curse of being the bad kid when sentenced to dig holes at a boy’s detention camp. Stanley then discovers the warden has a reason for all these holes, he’s trying to find something…but Stanley is on to him!
- Hoot Roy is the new kid in town and it’s hard enough trying to make friends but now he will learn a lesson in standing up for what is right as well as he helps his new friends stop a pancake house being built on land that is home to a colony of endangered owls.
- The Chronicles of Narnia Four siblings journey through the back of a wardrobe to a magical world cursed with an eternal winter, where they encounter an evil snow witch, make new friends, meet a majestic king and learn important lessons about courage, honour and loyalty.
- How to Eat Fried Worms Billy is a normal kid with no money who wants a new minibike. To earn the money his friend Alan bets Billy $50 that he can’t eat 15 worms in 15 days.
- Where the Wild Things Are Follow Max on his adventure in his beloved wolf suit! Off to faraway islands where he finds a group of Wild Things who call him King.
- Peter Rabbit The tale of a very mischievous rabbit who finds his way into trouble in the gardens of Mr. McGregor who hates animals raiding his vegetables!
- The Gruffalo A mouse who faces being eaten by a range of forest foes invents a creature that is sure to strike fear in anyone – but little does the little mouse know, that the Gruffalo actually exists!
- Horton Hears a Who The classic tale of Horton, a pretty large elephant, who swears he hears the smallest of voices on a flower calling for help… but no one else believes him.
1. Bridge to Terabithia (2007) BOOK: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (1977) 2. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) BOOK series: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (1950)
Jun 15, 2020 · Jumanji. I probably wouldn’t show my girls the new Jumanji yet, but the old one with Robin Williams is a fun one for younger audiences. ( Book // Movie) Matilda. This is my favorite Roald Dahl book and the movie version is a win (even if, per usual, it’s not as good as the book).
