They’ve now announced the author of The Peanuts Movie Novelization – it’s Tracey West. Tracey is a very prolific children’s author, with lots of work on licensed character materials such as books about Lego Ninjago and Adventure Time.  One of her most recent releases was one that seems a rather thankless task – its the chapter book adaptation of the movie Home, which is just about to be released. Why is this particularly thankless? Because while I assume she did a reasonable job of capturing the movie, the film itself is based on an excellent book aimed at about the same ages as this chapter book. The True Meaning of Smekday, by the talented Adam Rex (a former collaborator of mine and the kind of kids book crafter that, well, you can understand his work inspiring a movie) tells the tale as it was originally meant to be told. (And by the way, the includes having the proper name for the main alien in the story. His name is not, as the film would have you believe. “Oh”. His name is “J. Lo”.)

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