From: queeline at aol.com <queeline>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:38:35 -0400

Though I love both the movie and theatrical adaptations of Mary Poppins, recently learned what many of you might already know--that P.L. Travers was pretty devastated with what Disney did to her beloved nanny:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/19/051219fa_fact1

or, in a bit less detail...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Travers

Will probably continue to enjoy the Julie Andrews version but, sorry to say, probably won't ever look at them in quite the same way again. Does this change anyone else's perception of the movie?


--Jackie Glasthal

-----Original Message----- From: Kristin Butcher <kristin at kristinbutcher.com> To: CCBC -Net <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Sun, Aug 9, 2009 2:07 pm Subject: [CCBC-Net] Books to Movies

Though I often want to read a book after I've seen the movie, I can't think of a single time I want to see the movie after I've read the book. Occasionally the movie does the book justice, but most times it fails to capture the essence of the book, and I find myself disappointed. When my son was about five (it's his 31st birthday today), he asked me which I preferred -- to watch a movie or read a book. Then, before I could answer, he said, "You'd rather read a book, right? Because then you get to make your own pictures."

How right he was.

Kristin

Kristin Butcher www.kristinbutcher.com




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