Comments on: Bridge to Terabithia http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/06/29/bridge-to-terabithia/ writing, mothering, writing about mothering Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:31:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Riderone http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/06/29/bridge-to-terabithia/#comment-5382 Riderone Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:44:35 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1420#comment-5382 Zilpha Keatley Snyder! Zilpha Keatley Snyder!

]]> By: Ally http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/06/29/bridge-to-terabithia/#comment-5383 Ally Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:56:01 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1420#comment-5383 I've heard bad things about the movie version of Tuck Everlasting so I haven't seen it. I'm like you, as long as the movie hits the emotional points I'm ok with it being a different medium and going at the story differently. In fact I just saw Wicked! and was fine with the variations (except the end but that was really extreme). But I am a bit more protective of my favorite children's lit. This was greatly exacerbated by Disney's horrific, um, version of A Ring of Endless Light. My favorite book of all time completely butchered beyond belief. Oy. I didn't realize Bridge to Terebithia was still out in theatres. I'll have to add it to my Netflix queue while I'm thinking of it. We never get to the movies anymore. The Egypt Game was by...on the tip of my tongue...another author I really liked. And there were some spooky parts IIRC. I’ve heard bad things about the movie version of Tuck Everlasting so I haven’t seen it. I’m like you, as long as the movie hits the emotional points I’m ok with it being a different medium and going at the story differently. In fact I just saw Wicked! and was fine with the variations (except the end but that was really extreme). But I am a bit more protective of my favorite children’s lit. This was greatly exacerbated by Disney’s horrific, um, version of A Ring of Endless Light. My favorite book of all time completely butchered beyond belief. Oy.

I didn’t realize Bridge to Terebithia was still out in theatres. I’ll have to add it to my Netflix queue while I’m thinking of it. We never get to the movies anymore.

The Egypt Game was by…on the tip of my tongue…another author I really liked. And there were some spooky parts IIRC.

]]> By: Katerina http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/06/29/bridge-to-terabithia/#comment-5384 Katerina Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:21:03 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1420#comment-5384 I'm really glad you wrote this. Jude (8) has been wanting to see it since he saw the previews. I told him not until he read the book, however my stance has been weakening in the last few days (Winter break has just started, there's not a lot else to do and he's already got a stack of reading to get through). You've convinced me to stick to my guns though. Thanks! I’m really glad you wrote this.

Jude (8) has been wanting to see it since he saw the previews. I told him not until he read the book, however my stance has been weakening in the last few days (Winter break has just started, there’s not a lot else to do and he’s already got a stack of reading to get through). You’ve convinced me to stick to my guns though. Thanks!

]]> By: Riderone http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/06/29/bridge-to-terabithia/#comment-5385 Riderone Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:43:45 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1420#comment-5385 Does anyone remember the book "The Egypt Game"? The kids in the book do like Yondalla says; they use their imaginations to create a world where they are Egyptian gods. And I think something a little strange or supernatural occurs -- but that's part of imagining. The world you and your friends create seems so real that it's not a suprise when odd things occur. As a kid, I couldn't explain to adults about the power of my own imagination and as an adult, it seems as though some kind of barrier has been built so that I no longer feel the intensity of imagining things the way I did when I was a kid. Maybe kids still have imaginations intact but since they aren't the ones making the movies, the adults think they have to dumb it down for the audience of kids and make movies to show them what they are supposed to be imagining. Does anyone remember the book “The Egypt Game”? The kids in the book do like Yondalla says; they use their imaginations to create a world where they are Egyptian gods. And I think something a little strange or supernatural occurs — but that’s part of imagining. The world you and your friends create seems so real that it’s not a suprise when odd things occur.

As a kid, I couldn’t explain to adults about the power of my own imagination and as an adult, it seems as though some kind of barrier has been built so that I no longer feel the intensity of imagining things the way I did when I was a kid. Maybe kids still have imaginations intact but since they aren’t the ones making the movies, the adults think they have to dumb it down for the audience of kids and make movies to show them what they are supposed to be imagining.

]]> By: Yondalla http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/06/29/bridge-to-terabithia/#comment-5381 Yondalla Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:58:29 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1420#comment-5381 I'm glad you said that. Andrew (seventeen years old) has also been complaining about what he sees in the commercials. The WHOLE POINT he correctly insists is that the boy learns to use his imagination. I’m glad you said that. Andrew (seventeen years old) has also been complaining about what he sees in the commercials. The WHOLE POINT he correctly insists is that the boy learns to use his imagination.

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