Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland lost it's disturbing fever dream qualities, to become sing-song silly and cute in Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
"Oh, don't bother me," said the Duchess; "I never could abide figures!" And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line :—
| "Speak roughly to your little boy. And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases."
Chorus.
(In which the cook and the baby joined):— "Wow! wow! wow!" |
A. A. Milne's The House on Pooh Corner ended with Christopher Robin and Poo having a talk about how he was not going to be coming back any more because he was growing up
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson ended with the little mermaid throwing herself into the sea and becoming sea foam because the prince married another woman.
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