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101 Dalmatians
When the menacing Cruella De Vil steals Pongo and Perdita's dalmatian puppies, everyone leaps into action! Will they be able to save the puppies in time? Beautifully illustrated on every page, this classic Disney storybook is sure to become a favorite in any beginning library. It makes an excellent first reader for young children.
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72 pages, Hardcover
Published April 1, 2012
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April 24, 2020
Pre-School - 2nd Grade
Genre: Traditional Fantasy
I love the movie 101 Dalmatians so I really enjoyed reading the book. I was very surprised that the book followed the movie as closely as it did. This would be great for students who can not sit and watch a movie. When I finally have my own classroom I definitely want to have all the Disney books.
Genre: Traditional Fantasy
I love the movie 101 Dalmatians so I really enjoyed reading the book. I was very surprised that the book followed the movie as closely as it did. This would be great for students who can not sit and watch a movie. When I finally have my own classroom I definitely want to have all the Disney books.
May 23, 2022
Fifteen Dalmatians puppies have been stolen, and it is up to Pongo and Perdita—as well as their other animal friends—to find the puppies and bring them home. However, Cruella de Vil won’t let them go so easily. Can the puppies escape, or will they end up as fur coats?
This is a fun little collector’s book for those who loved the movie, or just love Disney in general. It’s a soft hardcover, and comes with a charm necklace—the necklace is meant for little kids, but it wasn’t too difficult to move the charm to a bigger chain.
The story itself does a fairly good job of telling the story of the movie. It skips/skims over some events in order to keep the story short, but it does it in a way that doesn’t seem abrupt, and I don’t get pulled out of the story for it. About halfway through the story, it started to feel a little boring in that there was a ton of exposition and very little action/dialogue, but it still was a fairly good translation of the movie.
EDIT 5-23-22:
I just finished re-reading this book and... the above still stands, in that it is an accurate re-telling of the movie, but it's kind of boring. Partway through, I just started skimming because I was bored. Partly, when I first read the book, I didn't realize how common movie retellings were and now they just feel like a cash grab to me. So, it now takes more to impress me than just summarizing the events.
I think they did a good job with the physical aspects of the book, as it's pretty nice. The artwork seems to be cleaned up versions of screenshots, or maybe just tracing over it. So, nothing super special there, either. I do like the page layouts, though.
I still love the necklace I got from it, but there's no reason to keep this retelling.
This is a fun little collector’s book for those who loved the movie, or just love Disney in general. It’s a soft hardcover, and comes with a charm necklace—the necklace is meant for little kids, but it wasn’t too difficult to move the charm to a bigger chain.
The story itself does a fairly good job of telling the story of the movie. It skips/skims over some events in order to keep the story short, but it does it in a way that doesn’t seem abrupt, and I don’t get pulled out of the story for it. About halfway through the story, it started to feel a little boring in that there was a ton of exposition and very little action/dialogue, but it still was a fairly good translation of the movie.
EDIT 5-23-22:
I just finished re-reading this book and... the above still stands, in that it is an accurate re-telling of the movie, but it's kind of boring. Partway through, I just started skimming because I was bored. Partly, when I first read the book, I didn't realize how common movie retellings were and now they just feel like a cash grab to me. So, it now takes more to impress me than just summarizing the events.
I think they did a good job with the physical aspects of the book, as it's pretty nice. The artwork seems to be cleaned up versions of screenshots, or maybe just tracing over it. So, nothing super special there, either. I do like the page layouts, though.
I still love the necklace I got from it, but there's no reason to keep this retelling.
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