Books and movies

You might like to enhance your reading by listening to books being read on audio cassette tapes or by seeing movies of the original books. Local libraries have many books that are available with a tape of the story being read in their Talking Books section. You could borrow a book you like from a library and then visit the video library to see the film.

Check the Glen Eira Council Libraries catalogue or locate suitable books in your local library.

The books listed below are reviewed on the internet.

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg; adapted by Michael Newland, Macmillan, London, 1993.
• The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit; retold by John Escott, Oxford University Press,Oxford, 1993.
• Rain Man  by Lenore Fleischer (Abridged Ed.) Penguin, London, 1994.
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough; retold by Ann Ward: series editor, Derek Strange, Penguin, London, 1995 (Television mini-series).
• The Guns of Navarone  by Alistair MacLean , published by M.Harper Collins, 1991.
• Doctor Zhivago  by Boris Pasternak; abridged and simplified by Lewis Jones, Collins, London, 1978.
• Mosquito Coast  by Paul Theroux; edited by Derek Strange (abridged edition) Penguin, London, 1995.

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