Unlike her comically flamboyant movie counterpart, she has a severely elegant look, and in one illustration looks rather like Morticia Addams. Cruella de Vil was expelled from school for drinking ink she serves blue meat and black ice cream that taste like pepper, and loves excessive heat (hence her obsession with furs) when a puppy bites her, she tastes like pepper. What makes the book so very different from the movie, though, is a strain of oddity that runs through English kid lit, harking back to Peter Pan (I’ll have a post on that later). In the book, the dogs instead get their revenge on Cruella by breaking into her London house and destroying her entire stock of furs. The dalmatian parents, assisted by a network of sympathetic dogs, undertake a hazardous cross-country journey and daring rescue.) The only major departure is the car chase at the end of the movie. When she can’t buy the puppies, she steals them. (Briefly: A young dalmatian couple have a litter of fifteen puppies, and Cruella de Vil, an old school-mate of one of their humans, wants to make dalmatian fur coats. The 1961 animated movie is actually quite faithful to the plot, though of course streamlined and cute-ified. Like many stories more famous for the movie than the original book, this one’s not quite what you might think.
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