Books and movies of books
I have realized, very slowly, that Other People are showing my children movies, reading them books, exposing them to things I don't know about until later.
There is an aspect of this that I MUST COMBAT: the showing of movies that are not as good as the books they came from (I know that this is an almost one-to-one correlation of "which I encountered first"), and I want to forestall someone showing my kids the movie first and them having preconceived notions regarding the material.
Elf and I (and Ben, for bits of it) started reading Escape to Witch Mountain last night. Return From was a novelisation of the film. Escape to was a (much better, imo) book that came first. I found a combo set of the 70s Witch Mountain movies that I'm going to give the kids for Winter Holidays and I want her to KNOW the story before the movie.
The list of "to come" includes:
-Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (and then the other Narnia books, but at least that first one to start with)
-Charlotte's Web
I'm sure there are more, but that's my current short list. I'm giving Elf the Maximillian Schell Heidi ($7 at the wonderful Borders pre-t-giving sale where I got $20/each for some box sets I've been eyeing) for Winter Hols and I have to decide if I want to read her the book first or not.
Any additions from anyone?
There is an aspect of this that I MUST COMBAT: the showing of movies that are not as good as the books they came from (I know that this is an almost one-to-one correlation of "which I encountered first"), and I want to forestall someone showing my kids the movie first and them having preconceived notions regarding the material.
Elf and I (and Ben, for bits of it) started reading Escape to Witch Mountain last night. Return From was a novelisation of the film. Escape to was a (much better, imo) book that came first. I found a combo set of the 70s Witch Mountain movies that I'm going to give the kids for Winter Holidays and I want her to KNOW the story before the movie.
The list of "to come" includes:
-Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (and then the other Narnia books, but at least that first one to start with)
-Charlotte's Web
I'm sure there are more, but that's my current short list. I'm giving Elf the Maximillian Schell Heidi ($7 at the wonderful Borders pre-t-giving sale where I got $20/each for some box sets I've been eyeing) for Winter Hols and I have to decide if I want to read her the book first or not.
Any additions from anyone?