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Based on biography: Gandhi Miss Potter Adapted from novels: Phantom of the opera Pride and prejudice Gone with the Wind Charlotte’s Web

Miss Potter

The late British author Beatrix Potter led a life as fantastic and magical as anything she wrote in her wonderful children’s stories. Director Chris Noonan’s earnest biopic “Miss Potter” brings her story, as well as 1900s England –a time when sexes stayed in their proper places –to life. As the picture opens, Potter faces pressures from her overbearing mother and more supportive father, who expect their daughter to marry up—or, at the very least, to marry. Certainly they don’t want her to pick a filthy habit like writing. Picture: 1

But Potter has her own plans. Since childhood, she has imagined stories of talking animals and provided the illustrations to accompany her tales. Potter calls her creations her “friends” and speaks to them as if they were alive. Mother dismisses her daughter’s work as “silly drawings” and, when Potter finds a publishing house to carry the book, she disparages the “tradespeople” who “carry dust into the house”. 2 Picture:

But with the help of publisher Norman Warne, the only man who believes in her talents, Potter eventually succeeds. And when we first see Potter’s little “bunny book” come off the press, there’s an undeniable thrill, partly because that book, published a century ago, remains to this day on shelves in basically the same size, format and typeface. February 4- February 10, 2007 Student Post 3

Charlotte’s Web

E. B. White E. B. White was born Elwyn Brooks White in In 1945, he wrote his first children's book, Stuart Little. This book is about a mouse and all his adventures with a human family. Charlotte's Web was published in This book is a story about a friendship between a young pig and a spider. In 1970, E. B. White wrote another children's book The Trumpet of the Swan. This book is about a boy named Sam, and his love of nature, and of a swan born without a voice.

Charlotte’s Web Director Gary Winick brings the E.B. White’s classic children’s book, “Charlotte’s Web,” to life in a new film adaptation featuring the most widely sought child actress of the moment, high-tech animation, and a voice cast that reads like a Who’s Who in Hollywood. In the movie’s opening scene, a young farm girl named Fern stops her father from killing the runt of a new litter of pigs. “Would you have killed me if I was born small?” she asks, fully indignant.

Fern dedicates herself to caring for the piglet that she dubs Wilbur, eventually moving him across the street to her uncle’s barn. There, Wilbur meets a group of bickering farm animals, none of whom want much to do with the young piglet, especially given the high likelihood that he’ll be slaughtered and smoked in just a few short months. Only Charlotte, a large spider that the other animals find repulsive, is willing to befriend

Wilbur, and it’s Charlotte too who sets about the task of making sure that her new pal doesn’t end up on the dinner table come winter. “Charlotte’s Web” was filmed using real animals, which digitally enhanced and given computer generated moving mouths. The blend of animation and live action is seamless, and several moments-like the scenes that zoom in on Charlotte weaving her web-truly capture the viewer’s imagination. February 11- February 17,2007 Student Post

Dear Readers: Many years ago….. As for Charlotte's Web, I like animals and my barn is a very pleasant place to be, at all hours. One day when I was on my way to feed the pig, I began feeling sorry for the pig because, like most pigs, he was doomed to die. This made me sad. So I started thinking of ways to save a pig's life. I had been watching a big grey spider at her work and was impressed by how clever she was at weaving. Gradually I worked the spider into the story that you know, a story of friendship and salvation on a farm. Three years after I started writing it, it was published. (I am not a fast worker, as you can see.)………..

Are my stories true, you ask? No, they are imaginary tales, containing fantastic characters and events. In real life, a family doesn't have a child who looks like a mouse; in real life, a spider doesn't spin words in her web. In real life, a swan doesn't blow a trumpet. But real life is only one kind of life? there is also the life of the imagination. And although my stories are imaginary, I like to think that there is some truth in them, too. Truth about the way people and animals feel and think and act. Yours sincerely, E.B. White Original from

Sunrise, Sunset (Tevye) Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play? (Golde) I don't remember growing older When did they? (Tevye) When did she get to be a beauty? When did he get to be so tall? (Golde) Wasn't it yesterday When they were small?

(Tevye) What words of wisdom can I give them? How can I help to ease their way? (Tevye) Now they must learn from one another Day by day (Perchik) They look so natural together (Hodel) Just like two newlyweds should be

(Perchik & Hodel) Is there a canopy in store for me? (All) Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly flow the days Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers Blossoming even as we gaze Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly the years One season following another Laden with happiness and tears

(Men) Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly flow the days Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers Blossoming even as we gaze (Women) Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly the years One season following another Laden with happiness and tears

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