ooohhh…I REALLY wanted to go to bed early tonight – by 10pm at least, my usual bed time lately is around 11pm, I love it because there is sooo much I want to do while the kids are asleep and the house is clean, but I really need more sleep!
So, this is keeping me up tonight…have just finished watching The Bridge to Terabithia and HAD to write about it before I go to bed!
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant movie! I know I am a bit behind on the movie scene as we never go to the movies anymore (actually, I tell a small lie…we did go a few weeks ago and saw Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, that was brilliant too – I could go on about that but wouldn’t get to bed forever…) anyway, this was one sweet movie. Right up my alley…I’m not into waste of time movies – killing, coarse language, violence – I like movies that make me feel good, that I can think about for a long time after and that I want to tell everyone about.
So, anyway, I wish I had read the book before I watched the movie, but I hadn’t…I am very looking forward to getting my hands on a copy now so that I can learn and feel even more about these special kids.
Leslie and Jess are from completely different worlds and seem to have nothing in common…until they discover a magical world together and solve all of their problems. I love anything that promotes children (and adults) using their imagination and really believing they can go to a far away place and imagine ANYTHING they want to.
The author of the book, Katherine Paterson wrote the book to help her 8 year old son deal with aa difficult situation that she didn’t know how to explain or make better, the only way she knew to help him was to write a story to help him with his feelings. How sweet is that? A mother writing a story to help her son that ends up helping thousands of people…brilliant!
So…if you haven’t seen the movie, hire it tomorrow for a Saturday night movie at home and let me know what you think.
P.S. How come blog posts get so lengthy late at night?
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