H, M and I just finished Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate factory”. I told them that we would rent the movie when we finished.

We finished yesterday, so, we rented it and watched it today. The movie is a bit more happy go lucky than the book… For instance, Charlie buckets family is literally starving when he finds the dollar in the gutter, amongst a few other things.

Anyway, I asked H which she liked better. She thought for a second, and then said “I like the movie better”. I asked her why, and she said “because of the squirrels”

Me: “Huh?” H: “because it wasn’t Verucas fault that the squirrels shoved her down the garbage hole… But in the movie, she goes down the “bad egg” hole, and she did it to herself.. And she deserved it”

Hmm. OK, makes sense to me! (In the book, there was not a golden egg room, there was a nut room, and Willy Wonka had trained squirrels to shell the nuts… They put “bad nuts” in the garbage hole.. And Veruca Salt was a “bad nut”!)

James and the Giant Peach (also by Mr. Dahl) is next.

H had her first Art class today (part of her Christmas present) and attended with a friend from the neighborhood. They were to draw the person sitting across from them. I hear that they will improve on the picture during each class.

Posted on 22 January '05 by , under Uncategorized.