Sometimes it can be hard to encourage kids young and old into reading.  Once they've mastered the basic skills of reading, some lose the enthusiasm and either don't transition well into chapter books or teens give up on it all together.  Reading as a  habit is important for education, entertainment and relaxation and it seems a shame when people don't discover that for themselves.

One of my sons took to reading readily and devoured the Harry Potter series by age 8, but the other just decided that reading was "not his thing".  Books made into movies are one of the best tools we have to help pre-teen and teenage children to develop the habit and joy of reading.  And luckily many of the most popular movies are based on books and several are part of a series that can hook them into the joy of reading.  In my case is was the Percy Jackson movie/book which launched my younger son into reading the whole series of six books plus anything else I could find on Greek Gods.

Below is a list of books that have been, or are about to be, made into movies that are suitable for kids and/or teenagers.  For more examples of books that may encourage your own reading or that of even older children, vistit our Movies from Books page.

One of My Favourite sections of the My Favourites website is the Movies from Books page.  Some books are just so fantastic that the movie version cannot do full justice to it - in others the movie simply cannot contain all the glorious detail.  The Movies from Books page has dozens of books that have been made into movies and with our best endeavours we will try to keep a supply of new books about to be made into movies.  One example being the up-coming "Hunger Games".

Coming to theatres in March, "The Hunger Games" based on the trilogy by  Suzanne Collins.  The trilogy has as its heroine 16 year old Katniss Everdeen who must train to represent her District in The Hunger Games - a televised fight to the death.  Set in the near future this series will be popular with teen-readers that enjoyed the "Tomorrow When the War Began" series as well as with a more mature audience.

Enjoy the series, or at least the first book, before the movie comes out.

Have you read any great books that you've heard are about to be made into a movie?