The very popular book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is being made into a film. A touching and lyrical book it will be interesting how it transfers to the big screen. At this stage what has been released is casting news: Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and newcomer Sophie Nelisse making her English speaking film debut.
It will be interesting to see how close to the book the adaptation will be and I can see English classes doing compare and contrast book to film essays.
Now I had this great idea to put in one post a bunch of trailers from a wide variety of my have Aussie authors…but then I struck a problem, there just aren’t that many clips out there.
So instead I will list for you just a few Aussie authors worth checking out, if you haven’t already, and leave it at that.
In no particular order and by all means not a comprehensive list, (the heat here today is over the old hundred mark and my brain is trying to pretend it is somewhere cool).
Michael Pryor
Marianne de Pierres
Jackie French
Anthony Eaton
Marcus Zusak
Michael Gerard Bauer
Wendy Harmer
Cath Crowley
Lili Wilkinson
Margo Lanagan
Lian Tanner
James Roy
Kate Forsyth
Andy Griffiths
Morris Gleitzman
And then of course once I started thinking about Aussie authors I wanted to add, the list kept getting longer and then I could find more clips but not necessarily trailers and so I will leave you with just a few and apologise to anyone I didn’t add by saying it’s only because my brain is sweating.
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It will be interesting to see how close to the book the adaptation will be and I can see English classes doing compare and contrast book to film essays.
