tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245036.post-24726850304949033332007-10-22T11:47:00.000-05:002007-10-22T11:47:00.000-05:002007-10-22T11:47:00.000-05:00I can only echo what others have said - this was for me a magical series that I first read when I was 11. I absolutely loved it - the sense of the magic behind everyday things, the way music was so important in all the enchantments, the poetic language, the overwhelming sense of place (an English village at Christmas, a fishing village in Cornwall, a hot summer's day in Bucks, the Welsh mountains). It was beautiful, subtle and original fantasy. When I was doing my A-level music composition, I even tried to write a piece of music for a possible film adaptation of Silver On The Tree.<BR/><BR/>A friend who I'd lent my copy of the series to told me last week that they were making it into a film. I was so excited that it made my day. Looking at the official site and reading the posts, plus the fact that Susan Cooper is not happy with the adaptation, I am dreadfully disappointed.<BR/><BR/>I can only echo another poster's hope that at some point in twenty years an independent film-maker will pick this up and make a film that captures the subtlety of Cooper's epic. <BR/><BR/>Thank you for giving me somewhere to post my thoughts.musoteachernoreply@blogger.com