Steven Spielberg is making a movie of The Big Friendly Giant. (squee) View fullsize The BFG was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. It is hard to explain how much this book means to me. I grew fast. I was almost always the tallest kid in my class. When I read this book for the first time, I found two characters I could identify with, but so much more than that, I found a world that I wanted to spend more time in. I pretended I was the giant, and acted out not only scenes from the book, but I invented new ones.