A few years ago, I tried to read the Dodie Smith book on which the movie is based, but I didn't get very far with it.
It is a very light and young book, to be fair. My teacher read it to us when we were 7 and I adored it, so I've never been able to really love the cartoon because they cut out Perdita (and called Missis Perdita) and made the two Nannies into one Nanny (which is wrong! how can you not have Nanny Butler in her trousers, go away.)
I gave my copy my lifeblood, I loved it so much. (I bled via a wobbly tooth all over it and then my baby sister chewed it and I... may still have it. *g*) Anyway, how I visualised it was the Puffin edition illustrations and Disney was highly unsatisfactory in comparison. It was fun enough, and all that, but not proper Hundred and One Dalmatians.
So, yeah, if you get it young enough, it's a complete delight.
The Starlight Barking, though, is just really weird.
I Capture the Castle, though, is a YA book and supposed to be a bit autobiographical. I've read a couple of her other adult books and they're also rather like I Capture, but weirder. Both very light at the start and hugely sad by the end.
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It is a very light and young book, to be fair. My teacher read it to us when we were 7 and I adored it, so I've never been able to really love the cartoon because they cut out Perdita (and called Missis Perdita) and made the two Nannies into one Nanny (which is wrong! how can you not have Nanny Butler in her trousers, go away.)
I gave my copy my lifeblood, I loved it so much. (I bled via a wobbly tooth all over it and then my baby sister chewed it and I... may still have it. *g*) Anyway, how I visualised it was the Puffin edition illustrations and Disney was highly unsatisfactory in comparison. It was fun enough, and all that, but not proper Hundred and One Dalmatians.
So, yeah, if you get it young enough, it's a complete delight.
The Starlight Barking, though, is just really weird.
I Capture the Castle, though, is a YA book and supposed to be a bit autobiographical. I've read a couple of her other adult books and they're also rather like I Capture, but weirder. Both very light at the start and hugely sad by the end.