Disney Movies are Generally Based Off of Stories

Okay, so most movies are. But unlike most book-based movies, Disney changes it to the point it's barely recognizable and actually can make it better. (Is it the fact that they usually have songs? It's probably because they have songs.) Most of these you probably knew. But you'd have to be paying attention to catch a few of these. Here are a few.
1. Almost all of the princess movies. So, besides Brave, Mulan, and Pocahontas, yeah, the princess stories were not thought up by Disney, but were still remarkable just the same. "Snow White" was a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, as well as "The Frog Prince" (which is where we get The Princess and the Frog) and "Rapunzel" (which is where we get Tangled). "The Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella" were by Charles Perrault and the Brothers' Grimm, obviously there are a million versions of all these fairy tales but I'm giving you the originals, given to me by my trusty information source Wikipedia. :) "The Little Mermaid" was by Hans Christian Anderson. Although, I would like to say that Beauty and the Beast, commonly thought to be a fairy tale, is actually its own individual book. (Wikipedia thinks otherwise, but come on, Wikipedia! I have the book on my Kindle! That's kind of as individual bookish as it gets.) Well, if Wikipedia is right, go look up who wrote it, but my Kindle says that it is by... oh. Awkward. I think that it is a fairy tale, considering that every page is 2-3% of the entire thing. Okay, this is really awkward for me. I'm sorry about that. So it is a fairy tale, Wikipedia says its most common version is by the person who wrote my version, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Sorry about that whole thing.
2. Peter Pan. Peter Pan was a novel by J.M. Barrie. (Weird use of the past tense. I say it like it isn't still a novel.) I've read part of an abridged version, I think I want to read the full version someday. According to my friend Wikipedia, who I hope is not offended by me thinking that it was wrong about "Beauty and the Beast", Peter Pan was the most famous thing J.M. Barrie wrote.
3. The Chronicles of Narnia!!! Fangirl fangirl fangirl!!! Thank you, Disney, for making one of the serieseseses (What the heck is the plural for series? I'm going to go with seri. You know, like octopi and cacti.) into movies! Although they only made three of the seven, they probably did the best three. Dang, I should just watch those movies. Like, as soon as possible.
4. The Jungle Book. Whaaaaat? I just found out that The Jungle Book is a collection of stories in a book, not just a book! Thank you, Wikipedia ;) Well yeah, it's a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, and my family has an abridged version of that one too. But I don't know, I've never really been into it, I guess. I've never even seen the whole Jungle Book movie.
5. Mary Poppins. Okay, maybe you guys didn't know about this one awhile ago, but surely you know about it now that SAVING MR. BANKS HAS COME OUT OH MY GOSH I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT I JUST ASLDKFJ;ALKSJDF;KJ. The book series was by P.L. Travers, who, in Saving Mr. Banks, is portrayed by Emma Thompson, who our loyal Potterheads may know as Professor Trelawney. So yeah, now that I'm done fangirling about that one I can't wait to share this one with you, because I didn't know it was a story until my mom read a review that said so on our way to see it, also if you were paying attention to the credits it was in there too.
6. Frozen. Yeah, it really is, it really is! Frozen was based off of "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen. But you know what's funny? (And this I learned while looking at the Disney Wiki) For those of you who have read the fairy tale, Anna was based off of Gerda (as well as Rapunzel from Tangled), which makes enough sense. And of course Elsa was based off of the snow queen herself. (It didn't say this and they probably weren't thinking this, but I also saw Elsa similar to Kay. You know, how she and Anna who is like Gerda were close as little kids, and then she disappears and her dear friend goes on a quest to find her? I think it fits.) But Kristoff? He was based off of the little robber girl! I know! I didn't really think that at all, but seriously! If my friend Disney Wiki is correct, the little robber girl inspired his character. I don't know. I guess so. I would also like to say that right now I have "Love is an Open Door" stuck in my head. And I shall leave you with this: "Let it go! Let it go, and I'll rise like the break of dawn!"

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas everybody! Well I have been thinking about this, and I have a few things I want to share with you guys.
Firstly, I would like to say that if you don't have any plans for Christmas, The Titan's Curse takes place during the winter :) Wintery reading! I know, I'm lame. But YAAAAAAAAAAAAY! It's Christmas!!! So... yeah.
Do you remember in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had Christmas in Narnia? And they got the weapons, I think? Right? If it's the same way it is in the movie, that's what I can remember, it's been a while since I've read it. But yeah, that's pretty cool. But that's how Queen Jadis knew she was in trouble, right? Because Christmas was never supposed to come? Sorry if I'm totally making things up at this point. :/
But guess what guess what guess what??? I got a few books, may I tell you about them??? Well the first one I got was YAY!!! The House of Hades!!! Rick Riordan, thank you for that lovely dedication :) For those of you who didn't read that, it went a little something like this: "To my wonderful readers: Sorry about that last cliff-hanger. Well, no, not really. HAHAHAHA. But seriously, I love you guys." Still haven't read The Mark of Athena yet, so I won't be reading it yet :/ I'm not breaking down until The Blood of Olympus comes out!!! I also got two books called Lost & Found by Jacqueline Sheehan and La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith. I got a Culinary Mystery, Blackberry Crumble, by Josi S. Kilpack. And, lastly, The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe, the book I'm reading for my next school book project. :)
Friends, you know, when I think about books and Christmas, besides getting some new ones of course, I think of Christmas at Hogwarts. They always talk about how magical Christmas is at Hogwarts. (Although I guess Hogwarts is always magical, haha.) Harry's first Christmas at Hogwarts, Fred and George pelted Professor Quirrel in the back of the head with snowballs, little did they know that all those snowballs were also hitting Voldemort in the face ;) Then second Christmas they got themselves into a little trouble by sneaking into the Slytherin common room! And Hermione got turned into a cat :) His third Christmas he got a bunch of gifts from Ron and Hermione from all their Hogsmeade visits, I believe it was also that winter that Fred and George give Harry the Marauder's Map! His fourth Christmas at Hogwarts was the Yule Ball, which was pretty sad because Cho was going with Cedric instead of him, Parvati and Padma were expecting him and Ron to do a little more than sit there, and then Ron and Hermione were very upset with each other by the end of the night. And yeah, the next Christmas he spent at St. Mungo's because Mr. Weasley got a rather deadly snake bite, his friends found out about Neville's parents, and they saw what had become of their friend Gildaroy Lockhart, and I can't remember what he finds out, but he overhears something that wasn't exactly fun to know. Our sixth Christmas with Harry is all right, though. He gets to go to the Burrow, and what isn't great about the Burrow? But, sorry to end it on a sad note, the last Christmas we get to spend with Harry, he decides to go to Godric's Hollow, his and Dumbledore's old home, finds his parents' graves and found Bathilda Bagshot who turns out to be dead and, instead of finding out about Dumbledore or anything else important, gets attacked by Nagini and barely escapes Voldemort, and then his wand breaks, so as far as bad Christmases go, that one's probably one of the worst.
Bye! I love you!