This first book in the Thirteen Witches trilogy perfectly balances the realistic and fantastical to create a story that is sure to captivate young readers for years to come. Here, we hear from Jodi Lynn Anderson about what inspired the trilogy as well as what her top five witchy/paranormal stories are!
Avid readers are familiar with the joys and sorrows of film and tv adaptations: for every awesome movie that brings your favorite characters to life, there’s another one that tries to destroy them. Given that the next few years promise to be absolutely saturated with adaptations, the smart book nerd will buckle up now, because […]
Popular books are like candy to filmmakers. A good book with a good story and a built-in audience can sound like an easy translation to box office gold and glory. But as we’ve all seen (many, many times), it’s not nearly so easy. The conventional wisdom is that the book is always better than the […]
It’s exhilarating (and a little scary) when our favorite books are made into motion pictures. The idea of seeing a novel that we’ve loved on the big screen is incredibly appealing, but us book nerds always wonder whether the adaptation will live up to their imaginations…which is all part of the fun. A number of books are making […]
