Monday, October 11, 2010

[Books to Movies] Fall 2010

(1. Never Let Me Go 2. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole 3. Howl 4. Social Network 5. Let Me In 6. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 7. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest 8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 9. Tangled 10. Miral 11. Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader 12. Gulliver’s Travels)
--image used with permission from youthservicescorner.com

September 15
Film title: Never Let Me Go
Based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro

September 24
Film title: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Based on the books by Kathryn Lasky

Film title: Howl
Based on the life of poet Allen Ginsberg, including an animated re-imagining of the poem “Howl”


October 1
Film title: The Social Network
Based on The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich

Film title: Let Me In
Based on Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Film title: Freakonomics
Documentary based on the nonfiction book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

October 8
Film title: Secretariat
Based on Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by William Nack

Film title: It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Based on the young adult novel by Ned Vizzini

October 27
Film title: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Based on the third book in the Millenium series by Stieg Larsson




November 5
Film title: Fair Game
Based on Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame

November 19
Film title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Based on the book by JK Rowling

November 24
Film title: Tangled
Based on the fairytale Rapunzel by the Grimm Brothers

Film title: Love and Other Drugs
Based on Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy (being rereleased as Love and Other Drugs to coincide with the film release)



December 10
Film title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Based on the book by C.S. Lewis

December 22
Film title: Gulliver’s Travels
Based on the book by Jonathan Swift

December 25
Film title: True Grit
Based on the novel by Charles Portis

Image and movie information compiled and provided by Whitney from the blog, Youth Services Corner

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