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Seek out the books, not the movie

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The Seeker, a movie based on Susan Cooper's book The Dark is Rising opened last Friday and is unfortunately getting reviewed as a bad Harry Potter rip-off. The truth is Cooper's award winning five-book The Dark is Rising Sequence was written in the early 1970s, 20-plus years before Harry Potter . The Dark is Rising is a Newbery Honor Book and The Grey King is a Newbery Medal Winner. Check out all five books in the children's room:
Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King and Silver on the Tree
Decide for yourself which is better, the book or the movie?
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Posted by Jen Marino on October 11, 2007 10:39 AM |

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