KidsLIVE: KidsLIVE: The Great Gilly Hopkins: Author Event with Katherine Paterson
Join the New York Public Library SAT OCT 1ST from 2-3pm as we welcome Katherine Paterson and her sons, David and John, to discuss Ms. Paterson's enduring young adult classic THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS and new feature film version of THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS debuting in theaters and On Demand OCT 7th.
This ticketed event is free and open to the public.
Registration recommended.
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Samantha Loomis Paterson
A feisty foster kid’s outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences in The Great Gilly Hopkins, an entertaining film for the entire family. Gilly Hopkins (Sophie Nélisse) has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter’s (Kathy Bates) endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly’s face it threatens to ruin the only chance she’s ever had to be part of a real family. Based on the award-winning young-adult novel by Katherine Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia), The Great Gilly Hopkins stars Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Julia Stiles, Bill Cobbs, Billy Magnussen, with Octavia Spencer and Glenn Close. Directed by Steven Herek; Screenplay by David Paterson. Lionsgate Premiere will release the film in theaters and On Demand October 7.
A film by Stephen Herek, a William Teitler / Brian Kennedy Production, In Association with Arcady Bay Entertainment and Inkling Entertainment.
KATHERINE PATERSON has twice won the Newbery Medal, for her young adult novels Jacob Have I Loved and Bridge to Terabithia, as well as the National Book Award, for both The Master Puppeteer and The Great Gilly Hopkins. She received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for the body of her work, and was National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Mrs. Paterson lives in Vermont.
The Great Gilly Hopkins screenplay is written by DAVID PATERSON. The film is produced by both David and JOHN PATERSON.
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