The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY - In Honor Of Walt Disney (Born December 5, 1901 – Died December 15, 1966) Read A Book Related To Your Favorite Disney Film.
Ex. If Your Favorite Film Is Cinderella You Could Read Godmother The Secret Cinderella Story Or Before Midnight A Retelling of "Cinderella".

If you need suggestions for books to read for this task post a request here.

Here are a few suggestions:

For Beauty and the Beast:
--Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley


Little Red Riding Hood:
--Scarlet Moon by Debbie Viguie

Sleeping Beauty:
--Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
--Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" by Cameron Dokey
--Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
--The Poison Apples by Lily Archer

Snow White:
--Snow: A Retelling of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by Tracy Lynn
--Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede

The Little Mermaid:
--Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguie

Mulan:
--Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan" by Cameron Dokey

Cinderella:
--Silver Woven in my Hair by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
--Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (Already mentioned in another answer, but I think this is one of the best ones you can find)
--Cindy Ella by Robin Palmer

For Snow White, you could also do Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire.

Kathy wrote: "For Snow White, you could also do Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire."Yes

I was wanting to do Cinderella's Stepmother for this task.

For Cinderella you could also do Ash by Malinda Lo.

I was hoping to do "Enchanted" (my favorite Disney film), but it appears to be an original screenplay, and I can find no books related to the movie. Before I give up, does anyone know of any books that I've missed?

Thanks!

I'd like to use The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The characters of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves appear in the book description. Would this work?

Lisa wrote: "I'd like to use The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The characters of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves appear in the..."It doesn't seem that they play a large role from what descriptions I've read so I would say no - but if they do then yes you could use it.

I've decided to move on from Enchanted and go with The Princess Diaries -- I've always wanted to read that book anyway!

Does anyone have any recommendations for books related to Aladdin? It and The Incredibles are my favorite disney movies. I could always do something to do with superheroes, but since we just did that last challenged I would like something different.

Any help is appreciated.

One of the best ways to check out other books based upon these stories is to use wikipedia! And I have a bunch of links, too.

http://slayground.livejournal.com/782...
http://library.campbellhall.org/secon...


Aladdin
One of the many retellings of the tale appears in A Book of Wizards and A Choice of Magic, by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

The Mercedes Lackey Elemental Masters Series are re-tellings of fairy tales.

Rachel Lee wrote: "Does anyone have any recommendations for books related to Aladdin? It and The Incredibles are my favorite disney movies. I could always do something to do with superheroes, but since we just did ..."

Of course there's always The Arabian Nights Tales from a Thousand and One Nights.

Would it be acceptable to read "Jabberwocky and Other Poems" to fit in the Alice & Wonderland... my very favorite Disney movie?

Cynthia wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I'd like to use The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The characters of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves ..."


Oops! I put the wrong book in this category. I meant to put
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly in this task. It has Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in the description. I was going to use the other book for part of Task 15.2 (magical world).

Tig wrote: "Would it be acceptable to read "Jabberwocky and Other Poems" to fit in the Alice & Wonderland... my very favorite Disney movie?"Yes

Lisa wrote: "Cynthia wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I'd like to use The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The characters of Snow White and th..."This book seems to have a multitude of fairytale characters I would like it to be more directed at that specific one.

Amanda wrote: "Would Doctor Zhivago work for the movie Anastasia? The book is about the Russian Revolution."Anastasia is 20th Century Fox not Disney so that doesn't work for that reason.

Can I read "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury (movie by the same name) for this challenge or are only Disney Princesses related books accepted, as most people have went with Snow White, Cinderella, Little Mermaide etc I wasnt quite sure. Cheers

Elantriel wrote: "Can I read "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury (movie by the same name) for this challenge or are only Disney Princesses related books accepted, as most people have went with Snow Whi..."As long as it is Disney it doesn't matter. So yes that's fine

Elantriel wrote: "Can I read "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury (movie by the same name) for this challenge or are only Disney Princesses related books accepted, as most people have went with Snow Whi..."

Such an awesome movie. I just watched it again on Halloween.

I just reread the description of the task: is it ok to use the book a movie was based on, or does the book need to be another version? Specifically, I am planning to read The Princess Diaries

Thanks!

Ashley wrote: "I just reread the description of the task: is it ok to use the book a movie was based on, or does the book need to be another version? Specifically, I am planning to read [book:The Princess Diari..."Either one is fine

There's a cute book called If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? by Melissa Kantor, that would work for Cinderella.

I'm planning to read Beauty Sleep... I LOVE Sleeping Beauty! (Or possibly, I think Prince Phillip is a stud. One of the two, for sure...)

Does "related to" include word matches between book title and movie if contents of book and movie are not related?

For Fantasia, would Fantasia of the Unconscious by D.H. Lawrence work?

My other option is two short audio books (5 hrs total) about music used in the movie:
An Introduction to Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"
An Introduction to Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony"

Would books in The Chronicles of Narnia work? I believe they were produced by Disney.

I found a link to Disney movies. There are a lot of great books here that never occured to me:

http://www.disneymovieslist.com/disne...

pjreads wrote: "Does "related to" include word matches between book title and movie if contents of book and movie are not related?

For Fantasia, would Fantasia of the Unconscious by [author:D.H. L..."I was thinking more content related than title related (unless it's the actual story i.e. reading Alice In Wonderland for the Alice In Wonderland book

For sleeping beauty could i do Beauty's Punishment(Sleeping Beauty #2)?

Jessy wrote: "For sleeping beauty could i do Beauty's Punishment(Sleeping Beauty #2)?"Sure

For Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, could I read Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi? The main character is a dwarf, but it might be a bit tenuous...

Sara, I love Sleeping Beauty, too! I'm torn between Enchantment and Briar Rose!

I just read a YA adult book for the fall challenge that was a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It was Beastly by Alex Finn. It tells the story from the beast's perspective and was pretty cute!

Another Sleeping Beauty book is Beauty by Sherri S Tepper.

Diane wrote: "I found a link to Disney movies. There are a lot of great books here that never occured to me: http://www.disneymovieslist.com/disne..."

It is a great link Diane; I had also discovered it and earlier used it to find some options.

Cynthia, to clarify, the book we choose has to relate to our chosen film, not be simply a retelling of the story?

Thank you so much!

Heidi wrote: "For Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, could I read Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi? The main character is a dwarf, but it might be a bit tenuous..."If there were seven dwarves or if the dwarf mines diamonds I might say yes but otherwise it's a little bit too much of a stretch.

Jennifer wrote: "Diane wrote: "I found a link to Disney movies. There are a lot of great books here that never occured to me: http://www.disneymovieslist.com/disne..."

It is a great link Diane; I had als..."Either Or is fine.

Tanja wrote: "Sara, I love Sleeping Beauty, too! I'm torn between Enchantment and Briar Rose!"

I've read Briar Rose... It was NOT my favorite book ever... I think I would have liked it more if I'd known what it was about at all (it's a holocaust story), but I was expecting something happy and fairy-taley, you know? Enchantment looks really good, too. For me, it's between that one and Beauty Sleep.

Briar Rose is a holocaust book? Huh. That's different.

My father has Enchantment on his shelves so FREEBIE LOAN! That's what sealed the deal. But this is great! There's more SB fans!!! I should take a snapshot of my collection. *giggles*

I wonder if I could fit the other SB books into other challenges. HMMM.

Freebie loans are the best. They're even better when the person is likely to forget you borrowed it and never ask for it back... heehee... (That would be my mom and/or sister...)

Other challenges: Check Chinese Zodiac (5.7), just in case. Fictional land (15.2b)? Multitasking, possibly (25.7)...

Cynthia wrote: "Heidi wrote: "For Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, could I read Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi? The main character is a dwarf, but it might be a bit tenuous..."If there were se..."

Hi Cynthia - that's fair enough. I just thought I would ask - I think I can fit that book in somewhere else in any case. Thanks for the quick response!

I found this link that lists the book sources for Disney movies http://hubpages.com/hub/Disney-Movies... (and following pages for each leter) I'm a little confused about some of the discussion here- post 35- Is it okay to read the book that the movie is based on?

Dlmrose wrote: "I found this link that lists the book sources for Disney movies http://hubpages.com/hub/Disney-Movies... (and following pages for each leter) I'm a little confused about some of the dis..."Yes you can read the book that it was directly based on OR a related story.

For Peter Pan can I use Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson?

Joanne wrote: "For Peter Pan can I use Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson?"

Yes

My favorite Disney movie is Fantasia, so I am not sure what to do with this. Read a fantasy book?? That seems too easy. Maybe I should pick a different movie?? Any suggestions, guys?

Lyn wrote: "My favorite Disney movie is Fantasia, so I am not sure what to do with this. Read a fantasy book?? That seems too easy. Maybe I should pick a different movie?? Any suggestions, guys?"

You could pick what your favorite section of the film is and read something based on that - for example my favorite section was always The Pastoral Symphony with the cenataurs and ancient Greece so I could - if I were doing this film - read something about Greek Gods/Greece.

I was wondering if that would work. Thanks Cynthia. I will do that, I do have a favorite section, it is the nutcracker, particularly the part where the muxhrooms are dancing. So I was thinking of reading The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers, which is a mystery about a mushroom expert that gets killed eating the wrong kind of mushroom. would that work?

Lyn wrote: "I was wondering if that would work. Thanks Cynthia. I will do that, I do have a favorite section, it is the nutcracker, particularly the part where the muxhrooms are dancing. So I was thinking o..."
Sure

Thanks Cynthia!

My favorite Disney film is probably Mary Poppins. Other then reading the books the movie is based on, does anyone have any suggestions?

Teresa wrote: "My favorite Disney film is probably Mary Poppins. Other then reading the books the movie is based on, does anyone have any suggestions?"

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