World Book Day
- Introduction
- Book to film
- Activity 1: Film of the book
- Activity 2: Swap the genre
- Activity 3: Adapt your favourite book
- Useful links
Useful links
Many of Film Education’s resources are based on film texts that have been adapted from novels. The links below provide teachers with a range of such resources (suitable for students ages 11-18) offering innovative ways to explore these transformations that are suitable both for World Book Day and beyond.
- Arriety (The Borrowers)
- The Adventures of TinTin
- Beowulf
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- The Chronicles of Narnia – the Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Eleanor’s Secret
- Great Expectations
- How to Train Your Dragon
- The Kite Runner
- Le Petit Nicolas
- The Life of Pi
- The Lovely Bones
- Oliver Twist
- Persepolis
- Private Peaceful
- Sherlock Holmes
- Trishna
- War Horse
- Wuthering Heights
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