Percy Jackson movie

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "marion11111" <marion11111 at ...> wrote:
>
> OK, since I brought it up in movies, I'd better follow through over here. :-)
> 
> This movie seems to be just the first book.  The director is Chris 
> Columbus. The trailer shows almost nothing, but I got so excited
> that I clapped when I realized what it was.  Of course, no one else
> in the theater had a clue and just looked at me like I was insane.
>  All the kids at my school are reading these, but I guess no one at
> the theater that day had read them.

Jen:  Cool!  I'd like to see these books in movie form because sometimes they were too busy for me with all the rushing here and there the kids do. I'm willing to give Columbus another try. :D  Thanks for the link.

Marion:
> I was just so thrilled with the way this took off with the kids. 
> It's hard to hook them into a new series and after Harry Potter 
> ended, so many just kept saying they couldn't find anything they 
> liked.  I would push this series and that series and this has 
> really been the only one that has grabbed a lot of kids.  Well,
> except for Twilight and that's been mostly for girls.  Some boys,
> yes, but mostly girls. 

Here in Austin our Book People bookstore puts on a Half-Blood Summer camp that's immensely popular.  Kids from all over the world sign up.  It seems like most of the boys in my son's class (5th next year) have read the series.  Plus the books have the bonus of cultivating a side interest in mythology. 

Marion: 
> I have high hopes for Haddix's new series (the first book is Found)
> and I thought the Tunnels series would be a winner, but only a
> handful finished the second one.

Jen: Good tips, thank you.