I also loved the book "Escape to Witch Mountain"!! The book was much better than the (first) movie--I have no desire to see the latest version.
Oh, and Rikki Tikki Tavi was a really good cartoon adaptation. That was also done by Chuck Jones, right?
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Kathy A - Jul 05, 2010 7:46:47 am PDT #9574 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
tommyrot - Jul 05, 2010 8:23:41 am PDT #9575 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I really liked the sort of melancholy tone to the book "Escape From Witch Mountain." In retrospect, it's not surprising the Disney adaptation would not be to my liking.
megan walker - Jul 05, 2010 8:29:01 am PDT #9576 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Loved Pippi Longstocking and Benji. Also, That Darn Cat.
I vaguely remember Escape to Witch Mountain and The Phantom Tollbooth, but I don't think I read them. I recently listened to a reading of Rikki Tikki Tavi on the Classic Tales podcast and can see how that would be traumatizing--it's quite vicious.
Amy - Jul 05, 2010 8:32:52 am PDT #9577 of 30000
Because books.
Oh, I loved That Darn Cat. And Grizzly Adams, too.
Jessica - Jul 05, 2010 8:48:45 am PDT #9578 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh I loved Rikki Tikki Tavi! Orson Welles!
msbelle - Jul 05, 2010 9:01:18 am PDT #9579 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I've read mac the old version of Pinnochio and newer Rikki-Tiki-Tavi. In both I had to do some verbal editing as I was reading it, but mostly I left stuff in. I don't think he understood a lot of Pinnochio, but R-T-T I think just seemed like life in the country to him.
Beverly - Jul 05, 2010 9:51:05 am PDT #9580 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Did you ever see Rikki Tikki Tavi? Talk about traumatizing children's cartoons.
With the Orson Welles narration? I still hear "The Great Grey Greasy Gambesi River" in his voice.
After watching it, and Disney's The Jungle Book, the kids named the giant snake plants foisted upon us by the MiL, Ka, Nag, and Nagaina.
javachik - Jul 05, 2010 12:41:50 pm PDT #9581 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
One of the subjects I studied for my degree was colonialism and boy did my in-depth studies of Kipling give me a whole new level of understanding of Riki Tiki Tavi (which had been a childhood favorite). Like a lot of things, it's not really a children's tale.
Volans - Jul 05, 2010 3:11:18 pm PDT #9582 of 30000
move out and draw fire
I loved the book and the movie of Rikki Tikki Tavi, and I still do, although in a different way.
Just got back from Toy Story 3. They broke me, but it was also good and funny, and they really didn't miss a trick. Did anyone else get that Sid was the garbageman? The one drumming on the bins and mailbox?
Polter-Cow - Jul 05, 2010 3:23:49 pm PDT #9583 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I did not catch that, Raq!