The song  "Dancing in the Dark" was recorded for the soundtrack to a film based on a children's book by what author?
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Dancing in the Dark (Rihanna song) "Dancing in the Dark" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for the soundtrack to the 2015 film "Home". It was written by Ester Dean, Maureen Anne McDonald and Rihanna together with its producers Stargate.
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Home (soundtrack) Home: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for "Home", a 2015 animation film based on the 2007 children book "The True Meaning of Smekday" by Adam Rex. It features songs recorded by Rihanna, Clarence Coffee Jr., Kiesza, Charli XCX, Jacob Plant, and Jennifer Lopez. It was released on March 23, 2015 through Westbury Road and Roc Nation. Following the announcement that Rihanna would star in the film, it was revealed she would release a concept album based on the animated film. As the executive producer of the soundtrack, she called on various artists to feature on the album. Rihanna's "Towards the Sun" and Jennifer Lopez's "Feel the Light" were released as singles to promote the album.
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Unchained (film) Unchained is a 1955 prison film based on the non-fiction book "Prisoners are People" by Kenyon J. Scudder. The film is most remembered for its theme song, "Unchained Melody".
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Spellbound (Dale novel) Spellbound is a 2008 fantasy/magic novel for children and the 3rd to have been written by British author Anna Dale, the author of "Whispering to Witches" and "Dawn Undercover".
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Invitation to the Waltz (novel) Invitation to the Waltz is a novel by Rosamond Lehmann, first published in 1932 by Chatto & Windus Ltd. The prequel to Lehmann's "The Weather in the Streets" (1936), the novel follows the preparations of two sisters, Kate and Olivia Curtis, for Sir John and Lady Spencer's dance.
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The Witches (1990 film) The Witches is a 1990 British/American dark fantasy horror-comedy film based on the children's novel of the same title by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Nicolas Roeg and produced by The Jim Henson Company for Lorimar Film Entertainment and Warner Bros., starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson, and Jasen Fisher. It is the last theatrical film to be produced by Lorimar before the company shut down 3 years later in 1993.
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Dancer in the Dark (disambiguation) Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 film by Lars von Trier, featuring Björk.
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Miss Spider Miss Flora Spider is the title character in the bestselling children's books by David Kirk. She originally appeared in cartoon format in the movie "Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids" (with Brooke Shields providing Miss Spider's voice), which spun off the "Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends" series (with Kristin Davis providing her voice this time around), and "Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends - Harvest Time Hop and Fly" video game. She is also the star of the Miss Spider apps for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
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Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton. The film stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, and Mia Wasikowska and features the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, and Timothy Spall. Based on Lewis Carroll's fantasy novels, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". This film tells the story of a nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsley (stated in the film to be a daughter of Charles Kingsley), who is told that she can restore the White Queen to her throne, with the help of the Mad Hatter. She is the only one who can slay the Jabberwock, a dragon-like creature that is controlled by the Red Queen and terrorizes Underland's inhabitants.
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Beautiful Children Beautiful Children: A Novel is the first novel by author Charles Bock. The novel was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction in 2009 and was selected as a 100 Notable Books of 2008 by "The New York Times".
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When the Nines Roll Over When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories) is the 2004 novel by David Benioff. A short film adaptation of the first of the seven total stories, for which Benioff wrote the screenplay, directed and produced was released in 2005.
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Elf: The Musical Elf is a musical based on the motion picture of the same name, with a score by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin. The book is adapted by Bob Martin and Thomas Meehan from the 2003 film. The musical ran on Broadway in the Christmas seasons of 2010-11 and 2012–13, and also toured the U.S. in 2012. A new tour launched in 2014.
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The Dark Half The Dark Half is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1989. "Publishers Weekly" listed "The Dark Half" as the second best-selling book of 1989 behind Tom Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger". The novel was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1993.
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Billy Elliot the Musical Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical based on the 2000 film "Billy Elliot". The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. The plot revolves around Billy, a British motherless boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes. The story of his personal struggle and fulfillment are balanced against a counter-story of family and community strife caused by the 1984–85 UK miners' strike in County Durham, in North Eastern England. Hall's screenplay was inspired in part by A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel about a miners' strike, "The Stars Look Down", to which the musical's opening song pays homage.
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Revolting Rhymes (film) Revolting Rhymes is a 2016 British-German computer animated TV film based on the book of the same name written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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The Child in Time The Child in Time (1987) is a novel by Ian McEwan. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for that year. The story concerns Stephen, an author of children's books, and his wife, two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate. Author Christopher Hitchens viewed the novel as McEwan's masterpiece.
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Icefire (d'Lacey novel) Icefire is a 2003 children's fantasy novel by English author Chris d'Lacey. It is the sequel to his 2001 novel "The Fire Within". It is followed by "Fire Star", "The Fire Eternal", "Dark Fire", "Fire World" and "The Fire Ascending".
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Sunset Song (film) Sunset Song is a 2015 British drama film directed by Terence Davies. It is an adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel of the same name.
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In the Dark of the Night (novel) In the Dark of the Night is a thriller horror novel by author John Saul, published by Ballantine Books on July 18, 2006. The novel follows the story of teenagers who find various objects once owned by serial killers, and they soon become possessed by the spirits that haunt them.
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Michelle Magorian Michelle Magorian (born 6 November 1947) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for her first novel, "Goodnight Mister Tom", which won the 1982 Guardian Prize for British children's books and has been adapted several times for screen or stage. Two other well-known works are "Back Home" and "A Little Love Song". She now resides in Petersfield, Hampshire, with her two children Tom and George.
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The Moon in the Cloud The Moon in the Cloud is a light-hearted children's historical fantasy novel by Rosemary Harris, published by Faber in 1968. It is set in ancient Canaan and Egypt at the time of the Biblical Flood and rooted in the story of Noah's Ark. It is the first book of a series sometimes called the Egyptian trilogy, followed by "The Shadow on the Sun" (1970) and "The Bright and Morning Star" (1972).
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The Jacket (book) The Jacket is a 2001 children's book by author Andrew Clements. It was first published in 2001 as a serialized story that ran in the "Boston Globe" and was later published in book format on August 1, 2003 through Atheneum Books. The work centers upon a young boy that discovers that although he doesn't identify as racist or discriminatory, he does have deep seated and unconscious prejudices that prompt him to immediately suspect the worst about a black student at his school.