Monday, November 29, 2010

Happy birthday, C.S. Lewis and Louisa May Alcott




The author of the popular Chronicles of Narnia series, C.S. Lewis, was born November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was born November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Celebrate these authors' birthdays by checking out a book (or a movie based on a book) written by them!

C.S. Lewis

Chronicles of Narnia series
#1 The Magician's Nephew
#2 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
#3 The Horse and His Boy
#4 Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
#5 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
#6 The Silver Chair
#7 The Last Battle

We own various editions and formats and many are located under JUV FICTION LEWIS or PB CLASSIC LEWIS. All 7 books included in The Chronicles of Narnia (PB CLASSIC LEWIS).To find any of the books or movies do a keyword search for "chronicles of narnia."

The latest Narnia film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is out in theaters December 10.

Louisa May Alcott

An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
JUV FICTION ALCOTT
Find it in the catalog!

The movie An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, based on the short story

Little Women (1868-1869)
FICTION ALCOTT // JUV FICTION ALCOTT
Find it in the catalog!

Little Women film adaptations : 1933 version starring Katharine Hepburn; 1949 version starring June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Janet Leigh; and the 1994 version starring Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Christian Bale, and Kirsten Dunst.

more books about the March family:
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
JUV FICTION ALCOTT
Find it in the catalog!

Jo's Boys (1886)
FICTION ALCOTT
Find it in the catalog!

To find more writings, just do an author search for "Louisa May Alcott" in the catalog.