I Am David; Great Book, Great Movie.

Anne Holm's novel I Am David is one of my favorite books of all time. It's a story about a boy named David who has lived in a post WWII concentration camp all his life. When he gets the chance to escape, he siezes it.

I Am David was recently made into a motion picture starring the magnificent Jim Caviezel (playing David's mentor Johan, known in the book as Johannes) and unkown Ben Tibber (Wonderfully cast as David). The only drawback I have about this film is that there are strong Christian themes in the book that fail to present themselves in the movie. Although leaving this out altogether would be understandable, David prays to St. Elizabeth, the patron saint of bakers, instead of to God as he does in the book.

Despite its faults, I thouroughly enjoyed I Am David in both its forms. Book and movie.

(By the way, for those of you who might be hunting for an older version of the book, I Am David was first published under the title North to Freedom, then as David, and finally, I Am David.)