From: Kristine Moruzi <kmoruzi>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:46:31 +1000

My daughter was given five hardcover Disney books (including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and The Jungle Book) which I simply loathe reading to her. The books are really adaptations of the movies, and they don't even do that very well. The story only flows if you know the movie and can fill in the parts that they didn't squeeze into the books. Back to the originals, I say. But they do have cultural currency for my daughter, since she can relate them back to the Disney film versions.

Cheers, Kristine Moruzi


On 7/20/06, Nancegar at aol.com <Nancegar at aol.com> wrote:
>
> The post about new versions of Beatrix Potter's lovely little books
> reminded
> me of Disney's version(s) of Winnie the Pooh, with its similar but
> cheapened
> drawings. Nice as it is that Pooh enjoys wider-than-ever popularity, it's
> sad
> that some children are therefore never exposed to the original!
>
> Nancy (Garden)
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