![]() ![]() This book is about the dogs, not the people. ![]() Noting what Disney added and subtracted helps identify the qualities that make the book so appealing. ![]() Pondering which is relevant here because the day after I finished the book, I watched Disney’s 1961 cartoon interpretation. Each time I read one of them again, it becomes a little more clear. According to a master storyteller, if it was a good book when I was 10, and is still good now that I’m over 50, it must be a good book.Īs I’ve remarked in other reviews of some of my favorite books from childhood, it’s difficult to put my finger directly on why I was so crazy about animal stories. Though the story-line was fuzzy in my memory, not so the nostalgia for the days home alone, missing school because of a cold couch, blanket, box of Kleenex, reading and rereading this sweet tale.īecause the feeling of reading this one stuck with me longer than the details did, I wondered if it would seem weak and silly now. Monday Morning School was the perfect excuse to read One Hudred and One Dalmatians again. ![]()
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