Two weeks ago on the Dixonverse message board, we started talking about children’s books we’d enjoyed and wished they’d adapt into movies. Someone mentioned the book “How to Eat Fried Worms”; I remember reading that one as a kid.

Turns out Walden Media, the family entertainment company that is producing Narnia Chronicles, has “Fried Worms” on their schedule for 2006!

Other films they are working on include “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Sherlock’s Secretary” (referring to a writing desk which contains an unsolved Holmes case), “Amazing Grace” (about one man’s fight to end slavery), “Manhunt” (about Harrison Ford pursuing the assassin of Abraham Lincoln) and “Charlotte’s Web.”

So long as they don’t do anything as boneheaded as the disastrous “Around the World in Eighty Days“, things look good for Walden Media.