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“Young Diane herself complained to her father that Bambi’s mother needn’t have died, and when Walt answered that he was only following the book, Diane protested that he had taken other liberties and that in any case he was Walt Disney and he could do anything he wanted.”
Sergeant Tibbs was a queen named Lieutenant Willow in the novel.
Is that considered a double demotion?
All the information you could possibly want about Jack and the Beanstalk, including two versions of the tale, all compiled by Heidi Anne Heiner. I have a strong feeling I will be linking to her site many times over the course of this series.
Just because neither Michial or I took the time to read Der Zauberlehrling by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t read it.
You can also read the Sorcerer’s source – an ancient work called Philopseudes by Lucian of Samosata. Who knows, it might inspire you to write a fourteen stanza ballad of your own.
One of the worst novels Michial has ever read. Get it for free and judge for yourself.
“Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven, a queen sat sewing at her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed she looked up at the snow and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell into the snow. The red on the white looked so beautiful that she thought to herself, “If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in this frame.”
Soon afterward she had a little daughter who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood, and therefore they called her Little Snow-White. And as soon as the child was born, the queen died.”
The Victorians invented children and disturbing children’s novels.
I went ahead and included the annotated Martin Gardner version here as well, because as Michial rightly said – unless you’re a Victorian or Victorian scholar, there is a lot you will miss culturally just reading the Lewis Carroll text.