Cori-Beth's Books

There are many books that I would love to see screen adaptations for. There are also many television programmes that I would love to see made into books. Ruby and the Well is one of those programmes. Yes, it's a children's show, but, the commercials made it look so interesting that I had to watch. It is a great concept for a programme and I enjoy watching it. I believe they are going onto their fourth season, now. I looked up to see if it had been based on a book or book series and was surprised to find out it wasn't. The Way Home is another series that I wish they would make into a book series. They way it's so beautifully written and produced and acted. Hello all my fellow Ponderers.

One book series that I wish that would be made into a live action screen adaptation is The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. I know the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has been done many times, including into a cartoon, but the other books in the series haven't really been touched all that much. The Magician's Nephew, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle. Now some of those books have been done for the small screen by BBC back in the last 80s and early 90s that I really enjoyed. Very close to the original text of the books. Disney has even done three of those books, as well. I wasn't particularly fond of the Disney adaptations because they strayed from the text and made them very Hollywoodized. Mind you, special effects have changed from the BBC series days and CGI now exists. All this being said, I wish that they would do all of the books right from the beginning, and as close to the original text as possible. It would be interesting in the Magician's Nephew how Digory and Polly are connected to the children in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. How those children are connected to the Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the Silver Chair, and in the Last Battle. I would love to see how the Last Battle is done in particular. It is my favourite of the whole series. I've read the series at least twice and am still longing for it all to be done in live action screen adaptations. And not on a streaming network that not everyone has access to.

There are other books I would love to see as screen adaptations, but this series in particular sticks out for me. Maybe I'll discuss other books in the future that stick out for me that would make great movies. Some for the Hallmark channel (W Network in Canada) and Lifetime. What is it they say? On the Hallmark channel you fall in love with a guy and marry him and on Lifetime you learn how to kill him? Okay, a bit extreme, but you know what I mean. Anyway, there is one particular Canadian author I am thinking of that I would love to see some of her books made into movies. Someone you probable haven't heard of. You'll have to wait and see who I mean later as I want to discuss her, soon.

So, are there books or a book series that you would like to see made into a screen adaptation? Or how about a television series that you would like made into a book? Let me know in the comments. Oh, here's an idea as well... What movie or tv programme was better as a book or vice versa?

Have a lovely day, everyone. And read on.