November Booklist: Screen Reads

Screen Reads

• Explore the diversity of reading and writing; scripts, television and films
• Promote Screen Reads
• Promote Screen Reads - before the film is released!
• Get involved with Film Education
• Link up with Film Festivals

TV TIE-INS

I Want a Friend (Little Princess Series)
Tony Ross
HarperCollins
9780007214914
The Little Princess is tired of playing with her younger brother and is thrilled to be starting school the next day. However, when her first attempts to make friends with other children fail, she is left all alone. Fortunately, she soon finds other children with no friends, and they decide to play together, sit together and eat together!

Songs and Rhymes from "In the Night Garden"

Penguin Character Books
9781405903738
A beautiful rhyme book that will take little fans on a delightful journey through the Night Garden as they repeat their favourite rhymes and songs with Igglepiggle, Makka Pakka and Upsy Daisy.

Thomas the Tank Engine Story Treasury

Egmont Books
9781405242912
This wonderful book is a superb collection of twelve of Thomas and his friends' best stories which is perfect for hours of bedtime reading alone, or with a parent or guardian.

The New Adventures of Curious George
Margret Rey and H A Rey
Houghton Mifflin
9780618663736
Join George and “The Man with the Yellow Hat” as they embark on a collection of new adventures.

SCREEN READS

Beowulf
Michael Morpurgo
Walker Books
9781406305975
Beowulf's terrifying quest to destroy Grendel, the foul fiend, a hideous sea-hag and a monstrous fire-dragon is the oldest surviving epic in British literature. Artfully retold and magnificently illustrated, this volume is made instantly accessible to children by a formidable children's book partnership.

The Borrowers
Mary Norton
Puffin Classics
9780140364514
The Borrowers are a tiny race of people who live hidden away in houses or other safe, convenient places, and own nothing except what they borrow from 'human beans'. The last family to live in the old house, Pod, Homily and Arriety have made a comfortable home beneath the kitchen floor. But their lives become threatened when Pod is seen while on a borrowing expedition...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Oxford University Press
9780192728029
If you love a good story, then look no further... When a cyclone hits Kansas, Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, are whisked away to the magical land of Oz. All alone in this strange world, they wonder how they'll ever get home...

Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)
Philip Pullman
Scholastic
9781407104058
When Lyra is given the strange and secret alethiometer, she begins an extraordinary journey that will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight.

Prince Caspian
C S Lewis
HarperCollins
9780007258536
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are mysteriously transported back to Narnia where they discover that it has been hundreds of years since their reign as Kings and Queens of the land ended. Along with their old friend Prince Caspian they race to overthrow the King, calling on the help of Aslan and his trusty follower, Reepicheep the mouse.

LIFE THROUGH A LENS

Catch Me If You Can
Stan Redding & Frank W. Abagnale
Mainstream
9781840187168
Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades and ingenious escapes - including one from an aeroplane - make for great reading.

Charlie Wilson's War
George Crile
Atlantic
9781843547365
Moving from the secret chambers in CIA headquarters to stand-offs in the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilson's "War" is one of the most thorough and vivid descriptions of CIA operations ever written.

Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Penguin
9780141006871
Eric Schlosser's disturbing and timely exploration of one of the world's most controversial industries.

READ THE FILM - BEFORE YOU SEE THE FILM

Coraline
Neil Gaiman
Bloomsbury
9780747562108
Shortly after moving into an old house with strange tenants above and below, Coraline discovers a big, carved, brown wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room. And it is locked...

Inkheart
Cornelia Funke
Chicken House
9781904442219
Meggie loves books. So does her father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he has never read aloud to her since her mother mysteriously disappeared. They live quietly until the night a stranger knocks at their door...

Blindness
Jose Saramago
The Harvill Press
9781860466854
Suddenly, while stopped at a red light in his car, a man goes blind. A "white evil" obliterates his vision, plunging him into light as fathomless and impenetrable as the darkest night.

The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Picador
9780330447546
An extraordinary, compelling and frightening novel examining the relationship between a father and son wandering a post-apocalyptic world in search of sanctuary.

SCRIPT IT

Screenwriting for Dummies
Laura Schellhardt
John Wiley & Sons
9780470345405
A guide for absolute beginners, it will take you through the whole process.

The Screenwriter's Handbook 2009
Barry Turner
Palgrave Macmillan
9780230573260
This is the essential guide for all new and established writers for the screen, including useful, easy-to-search contact detail entries from courses, societies and grants to representation and production companies.

Writing a Screenplay
John Costello
Pocket Essentials
9781904048312
Exploding the myth that a screenplay is the easiest literary form to master, this book navigates a relatively painless path through the screenwriting labyrinth, and offers an easy to digest guide to writing a script from inception to completion.