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Jamberry77
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Posted: June 04 2006 at 7:28am \| IP Logged

We found The Wind in the Willows movie at the library and what a treat! It has nice stop-motion animation and the dialogue comes from the book. It's not all the text in the book but what is in the movie is in the book. I think it'd be funny for kids before they read the book but especially funny after they've read the book. We enjoyed it a lot.

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Posted: June 04 2006 at 11:13pm \| IP Logged

Kelly, I find that it helps alot with encouraging ourselves and our children to enjoy reading with a passion.

Watching a movie and then feeling you really have to read the book that it may of been based on is a way of enjoying the plot from two different perspectives or trying to get double the enjoyment of it all.

I saw Nicholas Nickleby recently, absolutely loved it! - never had taken a fancy to want to read it before then now I am trying to track down the book!

Then I read Pride and Prejudice years ago and just had to watch the movie since I had heard that it was very faithful to the book - but I just really loved that movie for it's imagery and the way it made me feel.

Then you have ones like Lord of the Rings where I had read it way before as a teenager, then I saw the movies and have been re-reading it on and off/over and over since and with such new images in my head and a better understanding of certain parts of the book, since it is such an in-depth read. I don't imagine I will ever put it down completely.

I don't know which version you saw of Wind in the Willows (or if there are more than one) but the one my children have seen they loved very much. Interestingly enough I haven't read it to them yet but I think it was because they were very young when they saw it, but it is sitting on our shelves - we should probably pick it up!

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Posted: June 05 2006 at 9:58am \| IP Logged

It looks like my library has it

, so we've placed it on hold.
We have an audiobook version of this book, and the children just love it. Can't wait to see the video.

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Posted: June 05 2006 at 10:49am \| IP Logged

How funny! I just checked this out at our library last week.

We'll watch it today!

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Posted: Aug 01 2006 at 11:49am \| IP Logged

We like this version of Pride and Prejudice for its character development, the tension between the characters, and the incredible English landscape and estates. I've been a great fan of Jane Austen for just forever but when I saw this movie it fleshed out all the things we couldn't *see* in the book.

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Posted: Aug 01 2006 at 11:54am \| IP Logged

Have not seen the version of WITW you entered above, but we like this version. Vanessa Redgrave narrates to a few children as they row down a river. It's very well done and one of my children's favorites.

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Posted: Aug 01 2006 at 3:24pm \| IP Logged

Too funny..Kelly and Maria!We just checked out WITW, too...and that version!

The children loved it, even though it is just segments of the book.

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