Shiloh book and movie

Comment:

Our fourth grade class just finished reading your wonderful book “Shiloh” and watching the movie. We LOVED both! One of our question, posed by Macy T, is: Is there anything you would change about either the book or movie now if you could go back and change something?
We hope you have a Merry Christmas!

Phyllis replied:

I’m glad you were able to see the movie so you could compare the two.  I thought the producers did a good job, though I didn’t think that the addition of a girl (with a boy’s nickname) was truly necessary.  Perhaps if I were writing the book now I would have included just a bit more of Judd’s background, so the reader would have a better understanding of why he was such a mean and miserable man.  But if I’d done that, I probably wouldn’t have written the other three books in the quartet, which tells you how things finally turned out between Judd and Marty, and most of all, for Shiloh.