This weekend I went home and was looking through some of my old children's books and ran across an old book. It's a 1965 edition of Pinnochio that actually used to be my mom's book when she was a little girl. I realized that I had never actually read the whole story so have started reading it as part of the daily reading challenge. I find it quite surprising how different this book is from the Disney version of Pinnochio that I'm used to. Much more bad things happen to him in the book than the movie and I find myself surprised at some points that this book is for children. Has anyone else ever felt that way while reading a children's book?
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Pinnochio
This weekend I went home and was looking through some of my old children's books and ran across an old book. It's a 1965 edition of Pinnochio that actually used to be my mom's book when she was a little girl. I realized that I had never actually read the whole story so have started reading it as part of the daily reading challenge. I find it quite surprising how different this book is from the Disney version of Pinnochio that I'm used to. Much more bad things happen to him in the book than the movie and I find myself surprised at some points that this book is for children. Has anyone else ever felt that way while reading a children's book?
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Yes i have...in fact i did a report about that when i was in high school. Most of the original stories that have been picked by Disney have been made more child appropriate. One story, i think it's Cinderella, the step sisters and the step mother are made to dance on hot coals until they die for what they did to Cinderella. It's very interesting to read the original stories and hear about all the changes that have been made.
And what counts as "child appropriate" depends on the community, historical context, etc!
I have two versions as well that I'll bring to class.
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