YOU SHOULD READ THE BOOKS. Becuase the narrative style is charming and the illustrations are even MORE charming and I love them enormously. If you think they'll spoil the film for you then I guess you could wait and read them after it comes out, but that's so long! And they're so good! I made a post about the first one here (http://fahye.livejournal.com/368964.html) and the second one here (http://fahye.livejournal.com/488010.html).
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