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A fantastic read. Disney couldn't stomach a Christian message so they even had to change the title to frozen although it was based on Snow Queen. How progressively they watered down the fairy tail story over the years! The result is just a feel good, very simple narrative. Children are left with no sense of power of evil, a distorted and broken nature of our heart, the problem of evil, the power of Satan, the redeemer who actually went through hell to redeem us, just to name a few. We are all Ka
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LOVE this book. Never heard this story before and the new movie phenomena "Frozen" was based off this story.
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This, as I'm sure everyone with a pulse has heard by now, is the story that inspired Frozen. Audible was giving it away for free as it was narrated by their Narrator of the Year, Julia Whelan. Here are the similarities between it and the Disney film:
And that's it. I mean, someone does get their heart frozen but it's not in the same way, and at one point there's a reindeer and Whelan makes it sound (because reindeer talk in this story, of course) like Jonathan Groff as Kristoff as Sven. But thos ...more
And that's it. I mean, someone does get their heart frozen but it's not in the same way, and at one point there's a reindeer and Whelan makes it sound (because reindeer talk in this story, of course) like Jonathan Groff as Kristoff as Sven. But thos ...more
Magical and beautifully written, the perfect way to kick off December reading! Great on #audio!
Jan 26, 2016
Micha
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