From: Laura Purdie Salas <lpsalas>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:30:00 -0600

Oops, obviously I hadn't looked at the book closely enough. I see now that it says "A Novel by James W. Ellison" on the cover, but then it says "Based on the Screenplay Written by Doug Atchison" below that. Sorry.

So the movie was not based on a novel. Thanks, Nancy Kammer, for catching that!

Best, Laura Salas

Laura Purdie Salas web: www.laurasalas.com blog: http://laurasalas.livejournal.com/
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Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School [Clarion, forthcoming] Then There Were Eight: Poems About Space [Capstone, 2008] Grasslands: Fields of Green and Gold [Picture Window, 2007] Do Crocodiles Dance? A Book About Animal Behavior [Picture Window, 2006]


LPS> I really enjoyed the movie Akeelah and the Bee, and I have the book LPS> but haven't read it yet. This is the reverse of the way these things LPS> usually work!

LPS> I'll be interested to see how they compare. Anybody who's both read it LPS> and seen it care to offer an opinion?

LPS> Best, LPS> Laura Salas
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