Richie Rich

By Jordan Horowitz

Book Overview

Retelling of the popular movie Richie Rich, telling the story of the poor little rich boy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590250868
• ISBN13: 9780590250863
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.5" x 4.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

a good adaptation of the movie

This movie is a novelization of the movie starring Macaulay Culkin. The movie has a good plot and the novelization offers a few hours of enjoyable reading.However, I could not get not get used to the character changes. The scientist on the Rich estate is changed to an overeating endomorph. Richie's girlfriend is given a Polish surname and moved to a single-parent home. Nor did I like the cryptic advertising for McDonald's, Radio Shack, and a few other corporations. However, these defects are not the fault of Horowitz. On the contrary, Horowitz does a fine job.You might find it interesting to compare this novelization with the one by Strasser (0590250922). Why one publisher would commission two novelizations of one movie is a mystery, but it doubles our reading pleasure.