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101 Dalmatians
Book by Mazer, Anne
- GenresChildrens
92 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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About the author
Anne Mazer
75 books103 followersQuite a lot of Anne Mazer’s writing education took place while she was unconscious. Her parents wanted desperately to become writers and made themselves get up at 4:00 a.m. Every morning in order to have writing time before their three young children awoke. The first thing Anne heard every day was two big, noisy electric typewriters. The furious sound of typing was her childhood wake-up music. During the day, her parents endlessly discussed ideas, plot, and character, and before she was seven years old, Anne knew about revisions, first and second drafts, and rejection slips. It was like growing up in a twenty four hour, seven day a week writer’s boot camp.
In order to escape from her parents’ obsession with writing, Anne turned to books. She was an avid reader from an early age and credits her love of reading for her writing career. Her favorite works were fantasy, fairy tales, historical fiction, humor, realistic fiction, and adventure. Her other interests were language, art, history, and science. At the age of twelve, she wanted to be an actress, a ballerina and a nuclear physicist. These careers were rapidly eliminated as she realized that a) she couldn’t dance, b) she couldn’t act; and c) she hated math.
Although at the time Anne thought writing was nothing but a nuisance, she now considers herself very lucky to have grown up with two aspiring writers. She learned a lot about discipline, perseverance and dedication to a craft from witnessing her parents’ struggle. They eventually became successful and award-winning young adult novelists.
It took Anne a long time to figure out that she, too, wanted to be a writer. During early adulthood, she worked as an au pair, a bank teller, a pill bottle labeler, a receptionist, an English tutor, and an administrative assistant, as well as other jobs that she was ill-suited for. She attended three universities, spent several years in Paris, traveled throughout Europe, and worked in Boston and New York City.
Anne’s “eureka” moment about writing came while she prepared a research report for one of her bosses. As she lovingly polished each sentence, and meticulously organized the paragraphs, she realized that no one really cared how beautifully she wrote about the latest models of air-conditioners. Except her, of course.
Using her parents’ model of daily writing and discipline, she began to write. It took her seven years to publish her first book, a picture book inspired by her then two year old son, Max.
Anne is the mother of an adult son and daughter. Over the last twenty years, she has written over forty-five books for young readers. She has enough ideas to last for another quarter century and hopes that she will be writing for a very long time.
Fun Facts About Anne Mazer
Her favorite foods are popcorn, rice pudding and blueberries.
When she was a kid, she would sometimes read up to ten books a day.
If she had magic powers, she'd choose invisibility.
She painted the rooms in her house yellow, orange, and violet.
One of her favorite childhood books was The Twilight of Magic, by Hugh Lofting.
When Anne was a teenager, her room was so messy that she needed a map to get from the door to the bed. (sort of)
In school Anne often flunked her favorite creative subjects, like writing and art.
In order to escape from her parents’ obsession with writing, Anne turned to books. She was an avid reader from an early age and credits her love of reading for her writing career. Her favorite works were fantasy, fairy tales, historical fiction, humor, realistic fiction, and adventure. Her other interests were language, art, history, and science. At the age of twelve, she wanted to be an actress, a ballerina and a nuclear physicist. These careers were rapidly eliminated as she realized that a) she couldn’t dance, b) she couldn’t act; and c) she hated math.
Although at the time Anne thought writing was nothing but a nuisance, she now considers herself very lucky to have grown up with two aspiring writers. She learned a lot about discipline, perseverance and dedication to a craft from witnessing her parents’ struggle. They eventually became successful and award-winning young adult novelists.
It took Anne a long time to figure out that she, too, wanted to be a writer. During early adulthood, she worked as an au pair, a bank teller, a pill bottle labeler, a receptionist, an English tutor, and an administrative assistant, as well as other jobs that she was ill-suited for. She attended three universities, spent several years in Paris, traveled throughout Europe, and worked in Boston and New York City.
Anne’s “eureka” moment about writing came while she prepared a research report for one of her bosses. As she lovingly polished each sentence, and meticulously organized the paragraphs, she realized that no one really cared how beautifully she wrote about the latest models of air-conditioners. Except her, of course.
Using her parents’ model of daily writing and discipline, she began to write. It took her seven years to publish her first book, a picture book inspired by her then two year old son, Max.
Anne is the mother of an adult son and daughter. Over the last twenty years, she has written over forty-five books for young readers. She has enough ideas to last for another quarter century and hopes that she will be writing for a very long time.
Fun Facts About Anne Mazer
Her favorite foods are popcorn, rice pudding and blueberries.
When she was a kid, she would sometimes read up to ten books a day.
If she had magic powers, she'd choose invisibility.
She painted the rooms in her house yellow, orange, and violet.
One of her favorite childhood books was The Twilight of Magic, by Hugh Lofting.
When Anne was a teenager, her room was so messy that she needed a map to get from the door to the bed. (sort of)
In school Anne often flunked her favorite creative subjects, like writing and art.
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September 13, 2017
Title: 101 Dalmatians: Illustrated Classic
Series: -
Author: Anne Mazer & The Walt Disney Company
Genre: Children's
Rating: 4.5 stars
My Aunt bought me this book when I was about 5.. I didn't read this book until later (I was a late reader), but the photographs are absolutely breathtaking that it piqued my interest enough to always have me coming back.
Once I was finally able to read it, it was even better. An absolutely wonderful children's book, especially fans of Dalmatians :)
Series: -
Author: Anne Mazer & The Walt Disney Company
Genre: Children's
Rating: 4.5 stars
My Aunt bought me this book when I was about 5.. I didn't read this book until later (I was a late reader), but the photographs are absolutely breathtaking that it piqued my interest enough to always have me coming back.
Once I was finally able to read it, it was even better. An absolutely wonderful children's book, especially fans of Dalmatians :)
January 1, 2019
I loved the movie growing up and am still obsessed with it today. For the most part, the book sticks to the movie's plot but there are several scenes that weren't included in the movie, i.e. Skinner breaking into the London Zoo to kill the Siberian Tiger, Horace and Jasper breaking Cruella's tea set, Cruella calling Anita to console her about the stolen puppies, and so on, most of which were scenes that were confirmed to have been cut from the movie and have yet to be released online or on any DVD special feature type deal. At 96 pages it's a fairly quick read and also marketed toward elementary school readers, so the writing itself is nothing spectacular, but for what it is it's really good.
February 10, 2014
I love 101 Dalmatians. This is a quick read with pictures and sketches from Disney's live action movie. I have a copy of the original novel by Dodie Smith so I'm reading that one next.
Fun way to relax on a cold winter afternoon.
Fun way to relax on a cold winter afternoon.
October 16, 2012
Cute little story.
September 8, 2015
Ok it took me a cupel days to read this but that's because I was doing other things,if I stayed in my room and read I would have finished this book in a day it was that hard to put down!!!
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