Back in the 1990s, my mom did not allow me to watch Disney’s adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, because she thought it looked too dark and scary (watching it many years later as an adult, I have to say that she’s not entirely wrong. It’s really not a children’s film at all). Hilariously enough, my parents got me the novel for Christmas a mere few years later, not realizing that this is a Little Mermaid situation in that the Disney adaptation is a […]