Friday 6 January 2012

'Harry Potter' director Chris Columbus takes on children's books

'Harry Potter' director Chris Columbus plans to write a trilogy of children's books with author Ned Vizzini.

After creating family-friendly entertainment with such films as the first two "Harry Potter" movies and the 1990 hit ?Home Alone,? director-producer-screenwriter Chris Columbus is turning to children?s books.

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Columbus, who also directed the 2010 film ?Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,? has contracted to write a trilogy of children?s books for publisher HarperCollins, according to Entertainment Weekly. The books will be co-written with author Ned Vizzini, the writer of 2007?s ?It?s Kind of a Funny Story.?

The books will be aimed at middle-schoolers, and the series has a working title of "House of Secrets." The books will focus on the Pagett siblings, who, with their parents, move into a house that was once owned by a fantasy author. The Pagetts are forced to go on a mysterious mission to save their parents and find out the truth behind their family. The first book has a planned release date of the spring, 2013.

Columbus told Entertainment Weekly that the transition to a writing process has not been a difficult one for him and that he was inspired to write children?s books after seeing how much the "Harry Potter" series affected young readers.

?You hope for just a section of that in terms of being able to inspire kids to read,? Columbus said. ?And that?s really one of the themes of the book ? that reading is essential to your development as a child and as an eventual adult. That really has inspired us in moving forward.?

Molly Driscoll is a Monitor contributor.

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