"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader." ~ Paulo Coelho

Good Books & Movies

Hello!
I am creating this page for books/movies that I have read/seen that I think everyone should read/see, they don't need to I guess, but, they are REALLY good books/movies! If you have read/watched any of these let me know what you think of them!

I will eventually write a review on all of these, and if I have there will be a link to it.

Now, these are perfectly family friendly, unless they have an asterisk next to it. And it's not a bad book/movie if it has an asterisk next to it, it just might have a few bad words, intense scenes or action, or mild suggestive things. Also, younger audiences might just not understand or appreciate them (honestly, that's why most of these have an asterisk). All of these books/movies have good messages. Please read my reviews on them for specifics!

Enjoy reading and watching these fine works!!

Good Books:

The Adventures of Robin Hood - by Roger Lancelyn Green*
The Adventures of Robin Hood - by E. Charles Vivian
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - by Lewis Carroll

Beauty - by Robin McKinley
Because of Winn-Dixie - by Kate DiCamillo
The BFG - by Roald Dahl
Bridge to Terabithia - by Katherine Paterson
The Broken Prince - by Kara Linaburg

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - by Arthur Conan Doyle*
Charlotte's Web - by E.B.White
A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
Cloaked - by Rachel Kovaciny

Danny, the Champion of the World - by Roald Dahl
Dave at Night - by Gail Carson Levine
David Copperfield - by Charles Dickens*
Death Comes to Pemberly - by P. D. James*
Death on the Nile - by Agatha Christie*

Ella Enchanted - by Gail Carson Levine
Emma - by Jane Austen (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Esperanza Rising - by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Emily of New Moon - by L. M. Montgomery (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Fairest - by Gail Carson Levine
Five Enchanted Roses - by Kaycee Browning, Savannah Jezowski, Jenelle Schmidt, Dorian Tsukioka, and Hayden Wand.
Five Glass Slippers - by Elisabeth Brown, Emma Clifton, Rachel Heffington, Stephanie Ricker, and Clara Diane Thompson.
Five Magic Spindles - by Rachel Kovaciny, Kat Medill, Grace Mullins, Michelle Pennington, and Ashley Stangl.
Five Poisoned Apples - by Skye Hoffert, Jenelle Hovde, Courtney Manning, Maddie Morrow, & Rachel Wallen.*
Flipped - by Wendelin Van Draanen
Flora and Ulysses - by Kate DiCamillo
Framed - by Frank Cottrell Boyce*
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiller - by E.L.Kongingsberg
Funerals are Fatal (aka After the Funeral) - by Agatha Christie*

The Georges and the Jewels - by Jane Smiley*
Great Expectations - by Charles Dickens*
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (mini review)*

Hattie Big Sky - by Kirby Larson
The Headless Cupid - by Zilpha Keatly Snider*
Heidi - by Johanna Spyri
His Last Bow - by Arthur Conan Doyle
Holes - by Louis Sacher
The Hound of the Baskervilles - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
Howl's Moving Castle - by Diana Wynne Jones
The Hundred and One Dalmatians - by Dodie Smith


I am Malala - by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
The Incredible Journey - by Sheila Burford
The Invention of Hugo Cabret - by Brian Selznick


Johnny Tremain - by Esther Forbes
The Jungle Book - by Rudyard Kipling
Just Ella - by Margaret Peterson Haddix*

Liesl and Po - by Lauren Oliver*
The Little Mermaid - by Hans Christen Anderson
Little Women - by Louisa May Alcott

The Magician's Elephant - by Kate DiCamillo
Mansfield Park - by Jane Austen
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - by Howard Pyle
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - by Agatha Christie*

National Velvet - by Enid Bagnold
Naya Nuki: Shoshoni Girl Who Ran - by Kenneth Thomasma
North & South - by Elizabeth Gaskell
Nory Ryan's Song - by Patrica Reilly Giff

Oliver Twist - by Charles Dickens*
The One and Only Ivan - by Katherine Applegate
Only Fiona - by Beverly Keller
Out of the Dust - by Karen Hesse*

Pax - by Sara Pennypacker
The Penderwicks - by Jeanne Birdsall
Peter Pan - by J. M. Barrie
Pride & Prejudice - by Jane Austen (Parts One, Two, Three, and Four)
The Princess Bride - by S. Morgenstern and William Goldman

The Q - by Beth Brower

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - by Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - by Arthur Conan Doyle*
A Riddle in Ruby - by Kent Davis
Ruby Holler - by Sharon Creech
The Rumpelstiltskin Problem - by Vivian Vande Velde

Santa Cruise - by Mary and Carol Higgins Clark*
The Secret School - by Avi
Sense and Sensibility - by Jane Austen
The Sign of the Four - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
Stuart Little - by E.B.White
A Study in Scarlet - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
Summer of the Monkeys - by Wilson Rawls

The Tale of Despereaux - by Kate DiCamillo
A Tale of Two Cities - by Charles Dickens*
The Tiger Rising - by Kate DiCamillo*
To Kill a Mockingbird - by Harper Lee*
Tokyo Heist - by Diana Renn*
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp - by Kathi Appelt
The Trumpet of the Swan - by E.B.White
Two Princess of Bamare - by Gail Carson Levine

The Valley of Fear - by Arthur Conan Doyle*

Walk Two Moons - by Sharon Creech
When You Reach Me - by Rebecca Stead
The Wild Robot - by Peter Brown
Wonderland Creek - by Lynn Austin*
Wonder Struck - by Brian Selznick

The Year of the Dog - by Grace Lin

The Zookeeper's Wife - by Diana Ackerman*

Series:

The Anne of Green Gables series - by L. M. Montgomery

The Chronicles of Narnia - by C.S.Lewis
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair (Part I, Part II, Part III)
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle

The Harry Potter series - by J. K. Rowling*

The Land of Stories series - by Chris Colfer

Little House on the Prairie series - by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Lord of the Rings - by J. R. R. Tolkien*

The Nancy Drew series - by Carolyn Keene

Storybound  - by Marrisa Burt
Story's End

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - by Grace Lin
Starry River of the Sky

The Wizard of Oz series - by L. Frank Baum

Good Movies:

3-Ring Circus (1954)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Aladdin (1992)
Aladdin (2019)
Amazing Grace (2006)
An American in Paris (1951)
Anastasia (1997)
The Aristo-Cats (1970)
The Avengers (2012)*
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)*
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)*
Avengers: Endgame (2019)*

Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Bend of the River (1952)
The Black Cauldron (1985)*
Brave (2012)
Brigadoon (1954)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A Bug's Life (1998)

Candleshoe (1977)
Cars (2006)
Cars 2 (2011)
Cast Away (2000)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1986)
Christopher Robin (2018)
A Christmas Story (1983)*
Cinderella (1950)
Cinderella (2015)
Coco (2017)

Descendants (2015)
Descendants 2 (2017)
Despicable Me (2010)

E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Easter Parade (1948)
Elf (2003)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Enchanted (2007)
Ever After (1998)

Father Goose (1964)
Ferdinand (2017)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)*
Finding Neverland (2004)*
Finding Dory (2016)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Fox and the Hound (1981)

Gandhi (1982)*
Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) 
The Good Dinosaur (2016)
The Greatest Showman (2017)

Harvey (1950)
Hercules (1997)
Home on the Range (2004)
Hook (1991)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Hugo (2010)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

The Illusionist (2006)*

In The Good Old Summertime (1949)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Incredibles 2 (2018)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
Into the Woods (2013)
Iron Man (2008)*
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)

The King's Speech (2010)*
Kit Kittredge (2008)
A Knight's Tale (2001)*
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Leap! (2017)
Legally Blonde (2001)*
Let's Dance (1950)
The Lion King (1994)
The Little Mermaid (2018)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)*
The Man from Snowy River (1982) 
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)*
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)*
Mary Poppins (1964)
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Miss Potter (2006)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Miracle Worker (1962)*
Mirror Mirror (2012)
Moana (2016)
Monsters Inc. (2001)
Monsters University (2016)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)*
Mulan (1998)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
The Music Man (1961)
My Favorite Brunette (1947)

Nanny McPhee (2005)
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010) [aka Nanny McPhee Returns]
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
National Velvet (1944)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)*

The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)*

Paddington (2015)
Paddington 2 (2018)
Penelope (2007)
Peter Pan (1953)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)*
Pride and Prejudice (1995) [Episodes One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six]
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Princess Diaries (2001)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Puss in Boots (2011)

The Quiet Man (1952)

Ratatouille (2007)
Rio (2011)
Robin Hood (1973)
Robin Hood (2018)
Robots (2005)
Royal Wedding (1951)
R.V. (2006)*

Sabrina (1954)*
Santa Fe Trail (1940)*
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
The Secret of Kells (2009)
Sense & Sensibility (1995)
Shall We Dance? (1934)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Shrek (2001)
Sing (2016)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
The Swan Princess (1994)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
The Sword in the Stone (1963)

The Thin Man (1934)*
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)*
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)*
Toy Story (1995)
True Grit (1962)*

Up (2009)

WALL-E (2008)
What about Bob? (1991)*
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
White Christmas (1954)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

You Can't Take It With You (1938)
You've Got Mail (1998)

Zombies (2018)
Zootopia (2016)


Movie/TV Series:

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World (2019)

Robin Hood BBC (2006-09)*


Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)*

STAR WARS:
A New Hope (1977)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)*
Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Force Awakens (2015)
The Last Jedi (2017)*
(The other STAR WARS aren't very good, but are good for understanding.)


Book vs. Movie reviews:

Alice in Wonderland
The BFG
Howl's Moving Castle
The Jungle Book
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Little Mermaid
Peter Pan
Pride & Prejudice
The Princess Bride
Summer of the Monkeys


Older vs. Newer reviews:

101 Dalmatians (1961 vs. 1996)
Cinderella (1950 vs. 2015)
Pride & Prejudice (1995 vs. 2005)
The Shop Around the Corner vs. In the Good Old Summertime vs. You've Got Mail.


Whew! I put all my energy into doing these and now I'm worn out! Remember, some are better than others, so make sure to read the review (if it has one, if not, I'm getting there). Thank you so much for reading! If you like any of these, let me know! I'll be adding more!

MovieCritic

9 comments:

  1. What a load of movies and books!!! Have you ever seen Downton Abbey, Cinderella (2015), Lark Rise to Candleford, Emma (2009) or Letters To Juliet? They are very good to watch. :) Can I ask you a question? Are those movies you posted here all the movies you once watched?

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    1. P.S. Yust followed you. :) Your blog is awesome!

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    2. Hello Rachel! Thank you for visting my blog! I have seen the first three seasons and part of the forth of Downton Abbey, and Cinderella (2015), but I haven't seen the other three (I really want to though), These are all books and movies that I have read/watched. I have another page for the things I want to read/watch. Once again, thanks for looking around!!

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  2. A Christmas Carol, Little Women, Sense & Sensibility, Little House on the Prairie, Stuart Little!! (Have you read Charlotte's Web?)

    I love these books so much. :)

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    1. They are classics! No I haven't, but it is one that I hope to read soon!!!
      Me too!! :D

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  3. Oh, Cinderella, Akeelah and the Bee, Aristo Cats, Singin' in the Rain! Those are so enjoyable to watch! Have you seen the movie Little Women? And the two adaptions of Sense and Sensibility are very good too, although 2008 has a very strange beginning(which we skipped). And Little Dorrit 2008 is great to watch too! The tv-mini-serie may start a little mysterious and you could not understand it a lot, but it is really a good serie. And Robin Hood BBC is one of my favourites! It is soooo good! But that's my opinion. (You might notice I'm a Robin Hood BBC fan because of...well, my blog)And Downton Abbey is great too!!
    I love your blog, you're very good at reviewing!

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    1. They are super good! I have seen the 1994 Little Women. And I have seen the 1995 Sense and Sensibility, but I hope to see the 2008 one soon. I'll have to try it! Thanks for the tip!! Robin Hood BBC! Yes, I'm still in season three but I am loving it! And I am just starting Downton Abbey, and I'm enjoying it so far! Thank you so much for your sweet comment and looking around my blog!!!!

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    1. I know, right!? Some of these are called classics for a reason!!!

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