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Oh, there are so many ... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of my favorite books in childhood, and I love both movie versions, for different reasons. The Gene Wilder because it's so joyous, and the Tim Burton because it retains more of the creepy moral teaching of the book.

The Phantom Tollbooth, although I liked the book better than the cartoon.

The new Narnia movie did not disappoint me at all ... thought that was like someone took the pictures out of my head and popped them up onto the screen.

The Black Stallion was phenomenal!

However, there are a lot of disappointing versions of Black Beauty out there ...

I was always disappointed that none of the CW Anderson horse books ended up being made into movies ... and I still haven't seen the film version of Marguerite Henry's Misty of Chincoteague. There are several other of her books that would have made good movies too, but I guess that she's fallen out of favor with young girls who are mad about horses, it's all internimably long series of boring stories about girls in Saddle Clubs or whatnot these days.

I always wanted to see a movie about Ramona the Pest (Beverly Cleary), but given what happened to Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh), I'm not so sure that's a good idea.