13 YA Books That Will Be Turned Into Movies in 2019

Dumbo – March 29

You’re thinking, this movie isn’t based on a book – but it IS!

The original story first appeared as a Roll-A-book story by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl. A Roll-A-Book was a distinctive format — It featured about a dozen illustrations which appeared on a short scroll that was built into a box and the reader would twist a small wheel at the top of the box to get to the next panel illustration. No known copies of the original Roll-A-Book survive today.

The film will center on the owner of a struggling circus enlisting a man and his two children to care for a newborn elephant that can fly.