GreenBeanTeenQueen

One of the other options for Weekly Geeks this week was to list your favorite books from childhood. There's also the Top 100 Picture Books poll results on the Fuse #8 blog at School Library Journal, so I thought I should chime in. I know I can't remember all my favorites, but here's the ones that remain near and dear to my heart: *I'm picking books that were my favorites from 0-12. I'll do a favorite teen books post soon. Picture Books: It was really hard to pick only five, but ultimately I made my decision by picking what I would have talked about if I ever had been on Reading Rainbow. These were my Reading Rainbow practice books (Don't laugh, you know you did it too!) 1. Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff -This was the first book I learned to read. I've blogged about my love for Danny and his Dinosaur before. 2. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka -Oh, Jon Scieszka, how I love you! Your books make me laugh each time I read them and I ...

Here's this weeks Weekly Geek: Worst movie adaptations: The recent release of Watchmen based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore got me thinking about what I thought were the worst movie adaptations of books. What book or books did a director or directors completely ruin in the adaptation(s) that you wish you could "unsee," and why in your opinion, what made it or them so bad in contrast to the book or books? My pick is the 1995 TV Movie of From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler . Mixed Up Files was my favorite book when I was in fifth grade. It was also one of the first book I listened to on audio (on cassette!) I would listen to the book every night before I went to be for weeks and was always checking it out from the library. The idea of running away and living in a muesuem like Claudia and Jamie do just seemed so fabulous to me-and then you add in a mystery about art??? I was hooked. So when my mom opened the TV Guide two years later and said "l...