A modern Shakespeare, it’s not only Grimm’s fairy tales that Walt Disney adapted into works that became more famous and better known than the originals. Here are some of the others…
Lady and the Tramp: The Story of Two Dogs by Ward Greene; this edition illustrated by Joe G. Rinaldi with foreword by Walt Disney. You can read the original 1953 Lady and the Tramp novel at BookFrom.net.
The Hundred and One Dalmations by Dodie Smith
Starlight Barking: The Sequel to The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
The Parent Trap by Erich Kastner, translated from the original German by Anthea Bell
OR
Lisa and Lottie by Erich Kastner
Rather embarrassed to find that I focused so much on the titles I didn’t know were adapted from books, I forgot to list the ones I knew were–!!
