A Little Princess

Alice follows a rabbit down a hole and everything stops making sense. Disney animated it in 1951 and Tim Burton filmed it in 2010.

Lewis Carroll

Dorothy is carried by a cyclone to a land of witches and a road of yellow brick. The 1939 MGM film with Judy Garland is one of the most watched movies ever made.

L. Frank Baum

Mowgli grows up among wolves, with Baloo and Bagheera as teachers and Shere Khan waiting. Disney animated it in 1967 and remade it in 2016.

Rudyard Kipling

The four March sisters grow up in Massachusetts during the Civil War. Filmed with Katharine Hepburn in 1933, Winona Ryder in 1994 and Saoirse Ronan in 2019.

Louisa May Alcott

The stories of the bear in the Hundred Acre Wood, with Piglet, Eeyore and Christopher Robin. Disney began adapting them in 1966 and has never stopped.

A. A. Milne