Please consider upgrading to a Pro account—for less than a couple bucks a month, you’ll get cool additional features like all-time and annual stats pages ( example), the ability to select (and filter by) your favorite streaming services, and no ads! Brian Lowry of Variety said that the film's principal appeal for adults would be its abbreviated running time, and that it did not do enough with its famous fictional characters, noting: "A more inspired moment has Richard using a book, Jack and the Beanstalk, to escape from the belly of a dragon. The film of this book was such a huge part of my childhood but I only recently discovered it started as a book.

The Pagemaster: Kirschner, David, Contreras, Ernie, Tiritilli The Pagemaster: Kirschner, David, Contreras, Ernie, Tiritilli

It was an era when young adult literature was yet to blossom into the publishing juggernaut it is today, and classrooms had bookshelves full of Goosebumps and Myth Men books (I didn’t read the Animorphs books but their cultural impact was massive, I watched the TV show based on them after school). It is possible that we also need to fill out all other parts of Book (including important people and Spritelings, but especially enemies), or it is possible that maybe this one just glitched out for me.

Summary: Richard Tyler is an overly cautious ten year old who, after getting picked on by some local kids because he is too timid to "catch air" on his bicycle, finds himself caught in a downpour when he seeks shelter in a big stone building situated in a nearby park. I’ll also bring up that David Kirschner was also involved in producing the Halloween cult classic Hocus Pocus, so you can thank him for that childhood nostalgia as well. The animation in the film was produced by Turner Feature Animation, [2] headed by David Kirschner and supervising animator Bruce W. You gotta have a dragon in your Fantasy section, even if it’s not borrowed from The Dragonriders of Pern. I loved the witty banter between Adventure and Fantasy, and the librarian's rant about the different literary genres.

The Pagemaster (1994) - IMDb The Pagemaster (1994) - IMDb

He is assisted by three books which personify those genres (colourfully voiced by Frank Welker, Patrick Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg respectively). It also had tie-in video games, with a PC adventure game and Sega Genesis, SNES, and Game Boy platform games. The pirates go to Treasure Island, but find no treasure except for one gold coin, nearly causing a mutiny between the captain and the crew.There were a lot of picture book versions of horrific tales floating around libraries in the nineties, I remember a specific series dedicated to Dracula, Frankenstein, The Werewolf and The Mummy which had frightening covers which intrigued me enough to read them. Ten-year-old Richard's disdain for books changes when he meets the Pagemaster and is plunged into a land where the world's greatest stories become reality. Casci had written the screenplay under a WGA contract, as well as previous live-action versions for Disney Television dating back to 1985, also written under WGA contract. Reading Is Cool" Aesop: They certainly tried to do this, but as many people pointed out, it doesn't really encourage reading, instead name-dropping a few literary classics and using loose approximations of their plots and characters for action scenes.

Pagemaster - Rotten Tomatoes The Pagemaster - Rotten Tomatoes

I apparently read it so many times that my copy of the book had to be taped together (its a hot mess! We’re also introduced to Fantasy in this scene, who also yells at Richard Tyler for grabbing her the way he did. Some argue this film scared people from entering libraries as a kid, which is hard to argue with what with each book containing monsters attacking. I decided to read it for one of the prompts for the Charms Extra Credit portion of the Magical Readathon. They all have their own little quirks and are especially fun to read to little kids if you read each one with their own voice.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Because it's summer, I had time, and I've always wanted to read all of the books referenced in this 1994 animation classic. I loved the adventure that Richard Tyler went on throughout the worlds of fantasy and it had me wanting to read all of the stories that he visited.