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From Page to Screen: Children’s Books That Became Great Movies by Writers Exchange E-Publishing
There is a particular kind of anticipation that comes with hearing the words "now a major motion picture" attached to a childhood favourite. The imagination has already done its work, building Roald Dahl's chocolate factory from the inside out, casting Willy Wonka from some private store of faces, deciding precisely how dark the aunts' cottage should be in James and the Giant Peach. The question is always the same: will the film know what mattered about the book? Will it…