The Dark Is Rising

Ok, when I get going, I get going! Anyway, I was browsing books online at the library and I saw, "The Dark is Rising: movie tie-in addition." For those who don't know what I am talking about, The Dark is Rising is a book/series by Susan Cooper that have long been a favorite of my who family. It combines the stories of a family of three kids and the story of a young boy, all led/supervised by a strange man, Merri (Merriweather). You come to find out, he is based on the character, Merlin, from Camelot (That whole story comes in later.) Basically, Will finds out on his 11th birthday (ring a bell with anyone else) that he is a member of "The Old Ones" and has to find out the six symbols that will "save the world" in the battle between Light and Dark. That is a very poor explanation, but going to various websites (or better yet, reading the books!!!) will provide more and better plot synopsis.


Ever since The Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter have been turned into movies, I have thought that this series would make a great movie series. Well, going back to the first sentence of my blog, The Dark is Rising is finally being made into a movie! It is to be released in October, but the "reader reviews" are mixed and I have doubts that it will be made properly. But I am excited that if nothing else, it might get more people to read the books, which are awesome. The fourth book in the series, "The Grey King" won the Newberry Award and The Dark is Rising won the Newberry Honor. To repeat myself, and needless to say after that, THEY ARE WONDERFUL, AWESOME, GREAT books, so please read them if you haven't.