In seeing adaptation as a dialogic process that results in an intricate web of intertextuality, this book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film media has always had a partiality for adaptation of literary sources, especially 'classic' literary texts for children. As economic and cultural commodities, such screen adaptations play a crucial role in the cultural reproduction and transformation of childhood and youth and are a rich resource for...