Book Vs Movie "The Parent Trap" (1961) Hayley Mills Maureen O'Hara

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs. Movie:</strong> <strong><em>The Parent Trap</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The 1949 Novel by Erich Kastner Vs the 1961 Disney Classic Film</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/MV5BMzc1N2VhOTctMzVjZi00NWEyLTk2N2QtOWFjZDExOTBkODBjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjU5OTg5NDc._V1_.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="458" /></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Margos are twinning this week talking about Lottie/Lisa & Sharon/Susan--the lead characters from the</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_K%C3%A4stner"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Erich Kastner</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">german novel</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Das Doppelte Lottchen</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. The author’s life is</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">fascinating</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and we discuss it in this episode. A pacifist who fought for Germany in WW1, Kastner became a leftist, pacifist who warned about german authoritarianism. The Nazi party actually burned his books and forbade him to work during WW2. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The story that will soon be known as</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Parent Trap</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is about twin girls who meet at summer camp and learn they are sisters and a product of a divorced family. They decide to switch places (and homes) to get to know the parent they never met before. Also, to bring their parents back together. The book features illustrations of</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Trier"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Walter Trier</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">which really brings the story to life. It’s considered a classic in children’s literature and Kastner earned the Hans Christian Anderson Award for writing in 1960 and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Lite