Links
Terms
Archives
Categories
- Allan Ahlberg
- Angel Cake
- Angelina Ballerina
- Anne Frank
- Baddies and Villians
- Blogging
- Books
- Books of the Year 2008/2009
- Booktime
- Bridget Fidget
- Cathy Cassidy 2011
- Children's Book Fair
- David Whitley
- Dear Hound
- Dot Robot
- Eleanor Farjeon Award 2008
- Events
- Fantastic Mr Fox film
- Football
- Green Puffin
- Hammy the Wonder Hamster
- Happy Birthday Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Hay Festival 2009
- Jeremy Strong
- Love, Aubrey
- Magic Pony
- Matilda the Musical
- Michael Rosen
- National Year of Reading
- Patrick Hardy lecture 2009
- Percy Jackson film
- Pirates
- Puffin costume
- puffin.co.uk
- Queen of Teen
- Quentin Blake Virtually Live
- Rick Riordan
- Roald Dahl stamps
- RSPB
- Seriously Sassy
- Spy Pups
- Summer reads 09
- The BFG
- The Enemy
- The Great Escape
- The Midnight Charter
- The Railway Children
- The Seventh Tide
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar suit
- The Wizard of Oz
- Tom Palmer
- We Make Stories
- Wimpy Kid Dog Days
- Wimpy Kid movie
- Wimpy Kid van
- Winter fun
Subscribe with RSS
You can keep up to date with the latest blog entries by subscribing to our RSS feed.
Percy Jackson film
March 03, 2009
It’s not every day we find out one of our favourite boy heroes is becoming a film star, so it was massively exciting to hear that the cast for ‘Percy Jackson’ has been announced. If you haven’t read any of the epic adventures in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series then you’re missing out BIG time, because the Greek Gods are alive and kicking in the 21st century.
Shall I tell you a bit about Percy? Percy Jackson didn’t want to be a half-blood. He never asked to be the son of a greek god. But when your dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea, all kinds of crazy, scary and downright rip-roaring incredible things happen to you. Vaporizing his maths teacher? Percy’s done it. Battling two hissing she-devils with fangs? Done that too. Saving his best friend – and the rest of the world from a doomsday monster? Yep, Percy’s been there, done that.
The Percy Jackson series is funny, thrilling and will have you completely hooked from the moment you read page one of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief to when you finish Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth. I love Percy and have an ongoing debate with my boyfriend that Percy Jackson is better than Harry Potter. In fact, when I found out about the film I was poised to forward him the info with a smug ‘Ha! They never made a film about Harry Potter did they?!’ Erm, yes. The answer there would be yes. Several.
But, silly blonde moments aside, this is amazing news and from us all at Puffin HQ, big congratulations to Rick. Who just so happens to be here in the UK on tour and so you’ll be hearing from him very soon . . .
Sarah Kettle
Puffin Creative Executive
Remember that by posting a comment you are agreeing to the website Terms of Use. If you consider any content on this site to be inappropriate, please report it to Penguin Books by emailing reportabuse@penguin.co.uk
© 1995 - 2008 Penguin Books LTD
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
Registered Number: 861590 England
Registered Office: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL
