Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we look at stories told through the lens of a child’s imagination, and how those fantastical fictions can help them overcome real-life adversity.

Our collection includes:

• A Little Princess by Richard LaGravenese
• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• Beasts of the Southern Wild by Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
• Coraline by Henry Selick
• Heavenly Creatures by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson
• Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
• The Secret Garden by Caroline Thompson
• The Wizard of Oz by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
• Where the Wild Things Are by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. Download for free!

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