And why should she? She was five then! So when I see a new Lemony Snicket series acting as a kind of companion to the aforementioned A Series of Unfortunate Events I wonder how it will play out. This girl couldn’t remember back five years to that very film adaptation. It’s not often that kids will remind me that their memories of pop culture are limited to their own experiences, but once in a while it happens. Then one of the younger members, probably around ten years of age, turned to me and asked in all seriousness, “Do you think they’ll ever make a movie out of The Spiderwick Chronicles?” I was momentarily floored. We talked about the relative success of Harry Potter, the bewildering movie that was City of Ember, and the gorgeous credit sequence for A Series of Unfortunate Events. Last year I was running a bookgroup for kids, ages 9-12, when the subject of children’s books adapted into films came up. All the Wrong Questions: “Who Could That Be at This Hour?”
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