Your favourite childhood book that has not been made into a movie

As a young child I fell in love with anything Philip Ridley wrote, but my favourite of his would have to be 'Dakota of the White Flats'. It would make an awesome animation movie as the book is extremely descriptive and vivid.

I can't really name it, since I know for a fact that nobody here has ever heard of it.

Clifford. It hasn't been made into a movie right?

encyclopedia brown? i vaguely recall a tv show, but not a movie, as far as i know. the books are actually from much before my childhood, but my mother gave them to me, so i had a big obsession with them.

Discworld series. Loved the books, loved the games, never heard of a movie. (Well, that last part isn't actually true, but I mean a REAL movie, not some british televison stuff).

Fly Away Home, the depressing ass children's book about a homeless father and son living in an airport and how they try to sustain themselves and not get thrown out by airport security, has nothing to do with the movie Fly Away Home. Closest thing the book got was one of those annoying kids reading it on Reading Rainbow.

The Artemis Fowl books.

Where the Sidewalk Ends has potential

@zombiebigfoot said:

The Artemis Fowl books.

I want to watch the artemis fowl movie pretty hard right now not gonna lie

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

There was another series, akin to Goosebumps but a little earlier and more adult in nature. I can't for the life of me remember the series. They had some "choose your own adventure" books in the series and I distinctly remember someone getting disemboweled in one to great detail. Those were always good.

@DonutFever: yeah.. matt damon could be star fox

Pet Cemetery was made into one, so I guess The Truth Machine or His Majesty's Starship.

@DonutFever said:

StarFox 64.

Hell yes.

@Animasta said:

@zombiebigfoot said:

The Artemis Fowl books.

I want to watch the artemis fowl movie pretty hard right now not gonna lie

Yes to this as well.

Bunnicula books:
 
Bunnicula
Howliday Inn
Celery Stalks at Midnight

The Goosebumps series were pretty cool.

@DonutFever: Ryan Gosling = falco

Never ending story?....shit.

Tintin?...shit.

Lord of the Rings?...god dammit...

Boxcar Kids, or Boxcar Children. It was esentaly the male counterpart to nancy drew. It was about these boys that their parents died or abandend them and they lived in a boxcar until sombody noticed. And then they moved in with there grandpa or uncle or somthing.

Did they make Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs into a movie?

I loved looking at that shark bite into that peanut butter and jelly boat.

@Whamola said:

Did they make Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs into a movie?

I loved looking at that shark bite into that peanut butter and jelly boat.

They did and it was actually pretty good. Maybe my opinion is skewed because I was with my nephews.

The Redwall books got me into reading and so far no movie has been made. Unfortunately the author died about a year ago so no more of those...

@Dagbiker said:

Boxcar Kids, or Boxcar Children. It was esentaly the male counterpart to nancy drew. It was about these boys that their parents died or abandend them and they lived in a boxcar until sombody noticed. And then they moved in with there grandpa or uncle or somthing.

Only boxcar children I liked was the first when they lived out in the woods and it wasn't about them being damn detectives, after that it just felt like a cheap knock off of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.

Also Which Witch? such a good book.

I would be mightily interested in seeing the Abhorsen trilogy turned into movies.

The Captain Underpants books, simply because of how silly and probably "so bad it's good" the movie would be.

@shinboy630 said:

The Captain Underpants books, simply because of how silly and probably "so bad it's good" the movie would be.

This is my answer.

@shinboy630: oh yeah man, that would be great especially with super heroes all around now.

Ender's game. Even if they are making it right now, I will always love it for the prepubescent character issue focus, before turning the setting into something morally questionable.

Schnorky the Wave Puncher. It'll happen.

Oh and The Edge Chronicles.

I never really do any reading as a kid, and the only novel I remember reading to the end as Night. Which is about a child who is Jewish and has to survive the concentration camps. Pretty depressing.

I remember loving Where the Red Fern Grows, but there are two movies based on it and one of them stars Dave Matthews, so eff that ess.

I also really enjoyed the Redwall series of fantasy novels.

The Skinny Malinky novels by Stanley Kiesel, and if Hollywood ever made movies out of them, I'd give up on movies entirely. Let me have just these couple of books to imagine for myself, Hollywood.

Earl's Too Cool For Me. My mom used to read it to me all the time. I think its the only book I remember from when I was a kid that has never been made into a movie and thats kind of sad.

Although apparently it was a tv show for a bit and wikipedia says someone is trying to make them into a movie. I, of course, expect it to end up being pure shit.

@johnwaynegacy said:

Discworld series. Loved the books, loved the games, never heard of a movie. (Well, that last part isn't actually true, but I mean a REAL movie, not some british televison stuff).

This, although they did an ok job of Going Postal recently. The actors were well chosen and most didn't give a cardboard performance like the other shows.

My dream for that series is for Pixar to take it up and work their magic on it. I find the stories and characters to be more suited to animation and I often can't help but picture the characters as they are portrayed by Josh Kirby and Paul Kidby on the covers. I'm also interested to see what the new Watch tv series will be like.

I would also say The BFG, but it looks like that one is being made now.

Battleship.

"The Borrible Trilogy" by Michael de Larrabeiti, although the movie rights were optioned a few times there was never a release of a movie.

"Myth Adventures" by Robert Lynn Asprin might also be fun...

"Thomas" by Robin Jarvis

@zombiebigfoot said:

The Artemis Fowl books.

Loved this series. Didn't read them all, but the first three were great!

Was ere there a Animorphs movie?

@mandude: Sure thing. In fact, I'm a huge admirer of British cinematography, and I'm sure that some British actors would fit well in Discworld movie adaptation, like Rickman as Havelock Vetinari or John Cleese as Rincewind (on the other hand I think the only person to ever play Sir Samuel VImes should be Clint Eastwood). I just would like it to be a huge blockbuster, not a television movie (because of the low budget and stuff).

@MariachiMacabre said:

The Redwall books got me into reading and so far no movie has been made. Unfortunately the author died about a year ago so no more of those...

I would say this as well, as the Redwall books were my foray into reading past simple children's short stories. Although I did find out they apparently made a TV cartoon movie in 2000, but I'll still say it counts :)

Whats a book?

Mortal Engines series was incredible.

I also really enjoyed The Wind on Fire series, too (don't know if that's the name of the series or the first book).

Either of those would make greeat movies, though the former definitely lends itself to something of a filmed nature.

@shinboy630 said:

The Captain Underpants books, simply because of how silly and probably "so bad it's good" the movie would be.

How'd I forget these? Those books were awesome.

@Synthballs said:

@zombiebigfoot said:

The Artemis Fowl books.

Loved this series. Didn't read them all, but the first three were great!

Got to the one with the demons myself. Book.. four, I think. Shit got pretty intense in that one.

@MysteriousBob said:

Whats a book?

Those things with pages and words in them. They used to be read worldwide for entertainment.

As a norwegian, just about everyone everyone.