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Great post GC - Welcome back!

Just to give credit where it is due, (and I know you know this but I'll say it anyway) The Reluctant Dragon was a children's storybook first, by Kenneth Grahame, same guy that wrote The Wind in the Willows (Mr. Toad). Ferdinand was also a book first. Disney is good at picking up on stories with themes that hit everyone but not in a preachy way.

Great observation, GC. It's like when I caught part of Alice on the Disney Channel a few weeks ago. I saw the part where she gets lost in the forest and sings "I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it...When will I learn to do the things I should?", and has a crying fit. It touched me in a way it hadn't touched me before...the knowledge that one should be good and the inability to meet that standard within oneself is something I've battled for a long time.

Just goes to show, you can learn something new from something you've seen a million times.