Madagascar. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Madagascar: Movie Novel
Louise Gikow, 2005
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, 2005

At the Central Park Zoo, Marty the zebra celebrates his tenth birthday but has grown bored with his daily routine and longs to experience the wild. Marty’s best friend is Alex the lion, who enjoys showing off for the public and his celebrity status as the king of New York. Alex attempts to cheer Marty up, but Marty, still unsatisfied, learns that the zoo’s penguins—Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private—are trying to escape, and follows them out.


Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Madagasgar 3: The Novel
Bonnie Bader, 2012
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Eric Darnell, Conrad Vernon, Tom McGrath, 2012

Following the events of the previous film, the penguins—Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private—and the chimpanzees Mason and Phil leave Africa for Monte Carlo in their modified airplane. When they do not return, Alex the lion convinces his friends Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe, and Gloria the hippopotamus that they should go find them and return to their home at the Central Park Zoo.


Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
J.E. Bright, 2008
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, 2008

Years later, following their adventure in Madagascar, the zoo animals—Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, the penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private, and chimpanzees Mason and Phil—prepare to return to New York aboard a battered airplane piloted by the penguins, accompanied by the lemurs King Julien, Maurice, and Mort.


Bad Moms. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Bad Moms: The Novel
Nora McInerny Purmort, 2020
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Jon Lucas, Scott Moore, 2016

Amy Mitchell is a married woman living in the Chicago suburbs with two children, Jane and Dylan, who feels overworked and overcommitted. At a nearby bar, Amy meets Carla, a laid-back, sexually active single mom, and Kiki, a stay-at-home mom of four who adores Amy’s dissent from Gwendolyn.


The Nutty Professor. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the 1886 book, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
movie vs book
Tom Shadyac, 1996

At Wellman College, thousands of hamsters overrun the campus after being accidentally released by Sherman Klump, a morbidly obese, kind-hearted professor. Meanwhile, Sherman has created an experimental formula that reconstructs the DNA of an obese person in a way that allows them to lose weight more easily.