Adapting The Book Theif

I think a filmaker would have a hard time showing the concept of the time changes or the little exerts that the book has to inform you further. One place where an exert was helpful was when Rudy and Liesel werer waiting on the street for a soccer game and they saw Pfiffikus. The exert helped explain what he looks like in about three or four sentences rather than putting it into the story and taking a whole page to explain him.
One scene that would be crucial to the making the film version of this book was on the train.  I think it is so important for this scene to be present in the film because it shows Liesel's brother dieing. It shows how her view on things has been shaped because of the death of her mother and the "disappearance"of her mother. This scene does not show her leaving her mother, but it does explain how she gets scared from the night mares later on in the book.
Another scene that would be important to have is when Liesel steals her first book. The Gravediggers Handbook. I think this is imporaatant because it shows that Liesel has a book and she wants to learn how to read, but she does not know all of the words. The book helps her with that throughout the beginning of the book. Liesel and papa read the book in the mornings and afternoons so she can learn how to read. Each word she does not know, they work through together so that she may learn the words and how to read.
The last scene that i would like to include (up to where I have read) is the library scene. When the mayors wife invites Liesel to go into their library filled with hundreds of books. I thinkthis scene is so important because it shows how happy books can make Liesel. she had never seen so many books in her life, and yet there they all were.
If I were to make a cut, I would probably cut out all the times when Liesel is going to get the wash for her mum. I would include a short scene of her going through the town a couple of times, but it is not very important until you get to the Mayors house. Another scene I would cut is when Liesel rolls the cigerates for her father.