[Fiji Hill]

“I won’t have her turned into one of your silly cartoons … These books do not lend themselves to prancing and chirping,” she says, railing against animation and musicals".

After seeing how Disney butchered Felix Salten's classic story Bambi--A Biography from the Forests (Berlin: Ullstein, 1923), I would grant that P. L. Travers has a valid point.

[BwanaNdege]

After seeing how Disney butchered Felix Salten's classic story Bambi-

Another Disney muddle of a great book was Kipling's Jungle Book. The First & Second Jungle Books could have been the basis for a multi-episode saga like the Star Wars or Indiana Jones movies.

[Kip Russell]

After seeing how Disney butchered Felix Salten's classic story Bambi--A Biography from the Forests (Berlin: Ullstein, 1923), I would grant that P. L. Travers has a valid point.

Disney...butchering the source material? I don't believe it. Next you'll be telling me that "Hercules" wasn't faithful to the original myths! I'm sorry, but I'm just not that cynical.

[Beowulf9]

“After seeing how Disney butchered Felix Salten’s classic story Bambi—A Biography from the Forests (Berlin: Ullstein, 1923), I would grant that P. L. Travers has a valid point.”

I read Salten’s Bambi, yes, it was more serious but I’m interested in exactly what way you felt Disney butchered it.