The National Year of Reading’s monthly theme for November is Screen Reads. Use the opportunity to explore the diversity of reading and writing; scripts, television and films. Why not read the book before the film is released! Here are a selection of screen reads available from the school Library.
Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo
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. This edition is artfully retold and magnificently illustrated by Michael Foreman, making this epic tale instantly accessible to children.
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
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 by L. Frank Baum
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 (film: The Golden Compass)by Philip Pullman
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 by C S Lewis
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.
Read the book before the film is released:
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
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...
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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...
Marley & Me by John Grogan
A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.
For older readers:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
An extraordinary, compelling and frightening novel examining the relationship between a father and son wandering a post-apocalyptic world in search of sanctuary.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Eric Schlosser's disturbing and timely exploration of one of the world's most controversial industries.
