Reply #6: I loved that book

[Lorien]

it was called "Jenny" in Britain. My best friend growing up was British, and her family had a copy of it that I borrowed. Since then, I've purchased several American editions and have either given them away or loaned them out. I even suggested it as a feature film when I worked at Disney; we put it into pre-production, but that's as far as it got (they would have ruined it anyway-they wanted it to be a musical)!

Disney's 'Brother Bear" was originally based on "The Abandoned" (boy get's turned into a bear, and learns life's lessons as an animal) but very little of their original story ended up in the rather clumsy final product.