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What about Pooh? What boggarts lurk in the Hundred-Acre Wood for you?
<p>--Amanda
<p>Schlobin@aol.com wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>Hey, folks...</tt>
<p><tt>Well, we've banned Disney in our household. Dumbo is too awful and</tt>
<br><tt>traumatic for kids. The Hunchback and the Little Mermaid, etc.
are</tt>
<br><tt>too racist, and sexist, and just plain awful.</tt>
<p><tt>I grew up with Disney -- I liked Spin and Marty (would be great,
but</tt>
<br><tt>where are the girls?), Swamp Fox, etc.. -- but with the demise
of</tt>
<br><tt>Walt it went downhill....Pocahantas is all myth, etc. etc. etc.</tt>
<br><tt>I am joined by (many very conservative) parents.....in disliking</tt>
<br><tt>current Disney -- too violent!</tt>
<p><tt>My kids are too young to read. My daughter is 19 months. My son,
who</tt>
<br><tt>will be four in September, listens to audio tapes and watches</tt>
<br><tt>videotapes. He really likes Shakespeare's comedies -- As You Like
It,</tt>
<br><tt>Midsummer's Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing.
I</tt>
<br><tt>believe that this will help him read the plays.</tt>
<p><tt>He has listened to HP on tape, and just loves it. When we were</tt>
<br><tt>discussing the possibility of him attending private school, he</tt>
<br><tt>said "Hogwarts? I go to Hogwarts?" He has seen the videotape of
the</tt>
<br><tt>Hobbit and the Narnia Chronicles, so he's familiar with the story.</tt>
<p><tt>I had read ALL the Anne of Green Gables novels before I saw the</tt>
<br><tt>Wonderworks videos...but I loved them! I read Les Miserables in</tt>
<br><tt>English and French before I saw it performed, and read the Hunchback</tt>
<br><tt>in English (and saw the prior movies) before the Disney version.</tt>
<p><tt>i read the Scarlet Pimpernel before seeing any of the movies...</tt>
<p><tt>The LOTR prior movie was not at all great...I hope the new one is</tt>
<br><tt>excellent.</tt>
<p><tt>I don't necessarily think that the movie spoils the book..but in</tt>
<br><tt>general it's better to read the book first......</tt>
<p><tt>Susan</tt>
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