Terabithia

So I went to college with this guy David Patterson. We were in the drama department together and he lived on the same rowdy floor as my college boyfriend. I always liked David, he's a terrific actor. I remember him telling me that his mother "wrote kids books". He never made a big deal about it, in fact, that was all he ever said about it. David got a job with our school's touring theater company and left school before graduation. I have run into him over the years, in NYC, at plays, parties, he was always writing and always a nice guy.
I just saw him last summer. His two boys go to our camp. We caught up, turns out I knew his sister-in-law growing up. What a small world. He wrote a little movie, etc.
A few weeks ago, I get my alumni newsletter. There's a little blurb that David Patterson wrote the screenplay for

.....based on his mother's book.
What???
Dylan just finished that book. The 5th grade reads it each year.
So I call David and ask him if he'll come talk to Dylan's class. He said he hasn't become a big Hollywood jerk yet and would be happy to. (We also went to school with the guy who developed Smallville and a number of other things - he HAS become a big Hollywood jerk)
Dylan's teacher is so excited, she's over the moon.
We saw the movie last night. I cried.
I can't wait to read this "kids book" his mother wrote.