There are a number of Children’s classics that have been transformed into other forms of art. Dr. Seuss’ “Horton Hears a Who” was transformed into the musical “Seussical”, which I actually got to take part, as it was our senior musical at my high school. More recently the story became an animated movie, which is currently in theaters. Some see the transformation of books into movies and plays as positive, while others see it negatively. The argument against it is that people would only see the movie and never the book, but if that is the case, they probably would never have read the book anyway. The nice thing about the transformation of books into movies and plays is that they also inspire the movie goers to read the book. This was true for me in the case of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I had never wanted to read the books until seeing the first movie, and was inspired and ended up loving Tolkien’s books. In other cases the transformed version of the book is better than the originally. Arguably, this is the case with “Wicked”, the book written by Gregory Maguire and made into a musical in 2003. The concept created by Maguire is fascinating and enjoyable, but in execution, the musical surpasses the novel.