Why?

Comment:

my class just finished your first book and movie and I think it was a great book ! Why was David Howerds in the book but not in the movie ? My favorite part of the is the end of the book . But my lest favorite part is the part where Judd comes to take shiloh at the end of the movie I really enjoyed your book a lot .

Phyllis replied:

I don’t know why they left David out.  I felt that was a mistake.  They probably wanted to make room, or time, for the character they added–Sam,  girl–because they felt they needed more girls in the story.  But David does appear in the movies of the next two Shiloh books.