Books and Movies
Many terrific books have caught the imagination of Hollywood and become entertaining movies.
Ideally, we enter the theater having read the book but sometimes we backtrack and read the story afterwards.
It is always interesting and fun to see how the film imitates or departs from the original story. Below is a sampling of books in the OLS Library which have become movies.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Babe, the Sheep Pig
by Dick King-Smith
Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Bedknob and Broomsticks
by Mary Norton
Beezus and Ramona
by Beverly Cleary
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
by Ian Fleming
The Cricket in Times Square
by George Selden
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
How to Train Your Dragon
by Cressida Cowell
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Mary Poppins by P.I. Travers
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin