Great Adaptations

From Script to Screen

From the earliest days of the cinema, great stories, novels, legends, plays and autobiographies have long inspired movie makers.

Movies adapted from books are a great way to encourage children to read the original classics.  These movies help give children the context of the stories, whether it is the American Civil War, Great Depression, World War I or World War II.  The visual representation will help children better understand the era. What better way to understand the context than watch the movie adaptation?

Movie Title / Book Title	Author
Around the World in 80 Days	Jules Verne
Dr. Strangelove (Adapted from book Red Alert aka Two Hours to Doom)	Peter George
For Whom The Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway
Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck
Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier
The Three Musketeers	Alexander Dumas
To Kill Mockingbird	Harper Lee
To Sir With Love	E. R. Braithwaite
The Wizard of Oz (Adapted from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)	L. Frank Baum