Dodie Smith
Hardcover | Pages: 184 pages Rating: 4.13 | 32921 Users | 921 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| ISBN: | 0760704066 (ISBN13: 9780760704066) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Hundred and One Dalmatians #1 |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) |
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Pongo and Missis had a lovely life. With their human owners, the Dearlys, to look after them, they lived in a comfortable home in London with their 15 adorable Dalmatian puppies, loved and admired by all. Especially the Dearlys' neighbor Cruella de Vil, a fur-fancying fashion plate with designs on the Dalmatians' spotted coats! So, when the puppies are stolen from the Dearly home, and even Scotland Yard is unable to find them, Pongo and Missis know they must take matters into their own paws! The delightful children's classic adapted twice for popular Disney productions. Ages 8-11Point About Books The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians #1)
| Title | : | The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians #1) |
| Author | : | Dodie Smith |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 184 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1996 by Barnes Noble (first published 1956) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Childrens. Fiction. Animals |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 32921 Users | 921 ReviewsRate About Books The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians #1)
Such a nostalgic, delightful read! Glen Close as Cruella de Vil was a highlight of my childhood. To be clear the story is actually about a family whose dalmatian pups have been stolen in order to make a fur coat and of course, I'm aware that justice needed to be served to the perpetrator. But what I fell in love with as a child was the absolute crazy that is Devil Woman. The gender politics of this book are exactly what I expect from a novel written in the 1950s. Even if our heroes are dogs,A good fun adventure story, lots of peril on the dogs journey. Quite educational too, lots of tips on how to look after dogs, did you know a big male Dalmatian loves to be punched? The book has one major difference to the movie, in the book it is Pongo and Missus, Perdita is there but as a minor character, I found I had to keep explaining to my daughter that perdita was a different dog. There was one other thing that kept bugging me during the book... the maths... I was sure there were only 100
2,3/5 Yikes, I wouldnt read this to my children.
Update:Finally got around to re-watching the movie and while I enjoyed it and will likely watch it again in the future...the book is a better fit for me.Original Review:That was certainly a lot darker (and funnier) than what I remember from the Disney version.Also I feel like a lot of this was changed for the movie. It's been too long since I've seen it to be sure.We are gonna re-watch the movie tonight for comparison.Not sure if my husband and I will bother with the "sequel" book since it looks
Read aloud to me on late spring evenings by my nostalgic nineteen year old daughter - this is NOT the Disney version. Completely charming with a Beatrix Potteresque realism added to the animal characterizations of Pongo and Missis...and Perdita, who is quite a different character from the film version. This makes a wonderful read-aloud and many children would enjoy it, however --- Cruella de Vil is truly evil and her casual talk of drowning many kittens and pups would be disturbing to many
Oh the joy of it. I don't remember seeing the movie as a kid (though I'm told it's the very first movie I ever saw, at a drive-in, at age 4...!) But I vividly remember reading the book when I was in 4th or 5th grade and just loving it. And I wasn't even a "dog person" as a kid (or as an adult, until the past year or so). Anyway we read it aloud as a chapter book for bedtime last week and it was just as terrific as I remembered. The story is so delightfully British... there is something about the
When I was little, I got a copy of this book from my grandmother. It was old, the cover was falling off, and the edges of the pages were stained red. I adored it, and read it several times.Later came the various movies, first the animated version, which was enjoyable, and then the live-action movie, which was awful. None maintained what captivated me most about the story - the inner life of the dogs and their complexity. Anyway, I was suddenly seized by the need to read it again, and couldn't
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