But in the book, Mary hasn’t even met Peter yet, and Ms. Mumblechook then learns Peter’s address from a note that Mary unwillingly gives her. Mumblechook learns about the flower, and Mary claims that it belongs to Peter, the vicar’s son, to whom she delivered a jar of raspberry jam that morning. Here’s another point where the book did much better. Then Mary gets the grand tour, steals a spellbook of master spells, and gets on her broomstick to go home. Which I much preferred, because that was one of those moments where you’d need to have read the book to understand that otherwise glaring plot hole. Mumblechook is trying to figure out what classes Mary should be enrolled in and misunderstands pretty much everything Mary tells her so that in her eyes, Mary is a great witch.
In the book, Mary isn’t treated like a prodigy, but rather Ms. In the movie, Mary is a “prodigy” because she’s got red hair. Mumblechook is giving her the tour of the school, I much preferred the book version. Whereas in the book, this is made quite clear by Mary’s internal monologue: Mary pretends to be a new student so that she’s not a “trespasser.” Similarly, when Ms. Watching the movie, however, little old Aspie me didn’t understand the unspoken bit where Mary heard about the rule that dictated trespassers on college property would be transformed. Mumblechook, the headmistress, and passes herself off as a new student. Then we hit the part of the book I really liked more than the movie. In contrast, Mary’s family and reason for staying with her great-aunt is given a lot more attention in the book.Īfter that, the story proceeds pretty much identically in both mediums: Mary is bored, wants to do something to help around the house, gets in the way, meets Tib the cat, finds the flower and the broomstick, and gets kidnapped by said broomstick to Endor College, a magical academy accessible only through magical means.
#Small broomstick movie#
The movie definitely makes a bigger deal out of the flowers (after all, it is called “the witch’s flower”) but even though the book is called “the little broomstick,” the little broomstick gets way more attention in the movie. In contrast, The Little Broomstick starts as all other classics do: infodumping who the main character is, why she’s staying at her great-aunt’s house, etc. The beginning of Mary and the Witch’s Flower gives us a thrilling action scene of a girl we assume is Mary (spoiler alert: it’s not Mary) running away on her broom, and we assume she’s a thief: I’ll stop babbling about the background behind how the movie got made and instead do a direct comparison. Apparently Mary and the Witch’s Flower even received Miyazaki’s personal seal of approval! Well, that is because I first watched the movie that was inspired by this book: Mary and the Witch’s Flower.Īnd the reason I watched that movie is because I am a longtime fan of Studio Ghibli (yes, that Ghibli!) and Mary and the Witch’s Flower was produced by Studio Ponoc, which is kind of the baby of Studio Ghibli–a lot of Ghibli alumnae went and formed Ponoc as their own thing. How did I first decide to read this book? Oh, and, uh… SPOILERS FOR BOTH BOOK AND MOVIE. I kept trying to write a review of this book as a book by itself, but my feelings for the movie kept interfering with my opinions for the book, so I’m going to instead do a comparison of book to movie.
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