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• 1 Phil // Nov 9, 2007 at 11:14 am

  Scuffy the Tugboat with John C Reilly as Scuffy.

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• 2 Dirty Dan Sin // Nov 9, 2007 at 11:57 am

  The Story of Ferdinand – starring me as he.

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• 3 TLR // Nov 9, 2007 at 12:18 pm

  Not really a kids book but I always wanted ‘enders game’ to be made into a film.

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• 4 Phoebe // Nov 9, 2007 at 1:01 pm

  The Wind in the Willows. Tim Burton should make it.

  My dream cast:

  Mole: Paul Giamatti

  Rat: Phillip Seymour Hoffman

  Toad: Christian Bale

  Badger: Albert Finney

  Johnny Depp could make a surprise cameo as Otter.

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• 5 Tiffany! // Nov 9, 2007 at 2:55 pm

  I loved Runaway Rabbit, but child actors scare me, so I’m going to go with another favorite: The Giving Tree.
  Skipping the child actor part, I’d have Zac Efron (with a better haircut and less makeup) as the teenager, Ryan Gosling as the adult, and Peter O’Toole as the old man. And I think I’d have Helen Mirren voice the tree.

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• 6 kami // Nov 9, 2007 at 3:26 pm

  Where the wild things are. Phil, you could be the little boy…

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• 7 Jake // Nov 9, 2007 at 4:22 pm

  Does that oversize book about gnomes (I think it’s called Gnomes) count? Because that would kind of rule.

  Cast would include John C. Reilly, Billy Bob Thornton, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Cathy Bates (with a nude scene for her).

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• 8 Jessica // Nov 9, 2007 at 5:29 pm

  Shel Silverstein’s Where The Sidewalk Ends..

  so i guess it would have to be a series of all the poems linked together somehow, which now that i think of it could be really crazy.

  Starring…?? Maybe narration by Christopher Walkin.

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• 9 .air.ick.uhh. // Nov 9, 2007 at 6:48 pm

  okay… I was going to rant about how I’m always disappointed with the live action versions, but then I read Jake’s answer. That Gnomes book (by Poortvielt, maybe?) would rule as a movie. Although I don’t think it’s really a kids book. It’s more of a field guide. A critical study of the gnome in his natural habitat.

  I’d make Paul Giomatti the main gnome. And I’ll support the Cathy Bates choice as the mother/wife gnome, but no nude scene. And Billy Crystal would have to be in it.

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• 10 prof. fancy pants // Nov 9, 2007 at 8:58 pm

  harry the dirty dog, starring eddie murphy.

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• 11 feverishpoptart // Nov 9, 2007 at 9:10 pm

  Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and the Ramona Quimby books. I don’t know who I would want to star in them.

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