Did you know that many of the great family movies out there were kids books first? You can earn your "curtains up" badge by reading some of these great titles:

Ella enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke; translated from the German by Anthea Bell

Cheaper by the dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth Carey; (with a new afterword by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey)

Holes by Louis Sachar

White Fang by retold from the Jack London original by Kathleen Olmstead; illustrated by Dan Andreasen

Shrek! by William Steig

Charlotte's web by E.B. White; pictures by Garth Williams

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum; illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis; illustrated by Pauline Baynes

The lightning thief by Rick Riordan

Tuck everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

The invention of Hugo Cabret: a novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick

Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary; illustrated by Tracy Dockray

Essential Avengers. Vol. 4 by [writer[s], Roy Thomas, Harlan Ellison; penciler[s], Sal Buscema ... [et al.]; inker[s], Sam Grainger ... [et al.]; letterer[s], Artie Simek ... [et al.]]