Moving Stories closed on 6 October 2013. For details of our current exhibitions, take a look at our what’s on page.
An exploration of the methods used by authors, illustrators and filmmakers to create emotion and action and take amazing stories from the page to the screen.
Gallery
Final illustration by Axel Scheffler for The Gruffalo, c. 1998
© Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 1999 Published by Macmillan Children's Books
Alice Liddell in profile, facing right, 1858, Lewis Carroll
© Science Museum Group collection
Cinderella and the Little Glass Slipper, c. 1860
Courtesy of Seven Stories
Lost and Found, 2008
© Studio AKA
Illustration by Diana Stanley for The Borrowers Afield, by Mary Norton, 1963
Mr Stink and Chloe from the 2012 BBC adaptation of David Walliams' book
© BBC
Programme for Peter Pan, c.1904
Courtesy of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
Lost and Found
© Studio AKA
'Fairy Tales' section of Moving Stories
'Journeys of Adventure' section of Moving Stories
'Worlds of Fantasy' section of Moving Stories
'Friends and Family' section of Moving Stories
'Overcoming the Monster' section of Moving Stories
'Overcoming the Monster' section of Moving Stories
About the exhibition
Through familiar stories—from Snow White and Cinderella to The Gruffalo, Fantastic Mr Fox and many more—this exhibition showed visitors how beloved children’s books are adapted into favourite films and television programmes.
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