Susannah of the Mounties
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Author | Muriel Denison |
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Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Genre | Children's novel |
Publisher | Dodd, Mead & Co. (US) Dent (UK) |
Publication date | 1936 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 286 pp |
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Susannah of the Mounties is a children's novel by Canadian author Muriel Denison, first published in 1936.[1] In the book 9-year-old Susannah is sent to Regina, Saskatchewan to spend the summer with her uncle who is a Mountie. There are several sequels to the book: Susannah at Boarding School, Susannah of the Yukon and Susannah Rides Again.
Film adaptation[]
In 1939 it was adapted into the film Susannah of the Mounties starring Shirley Temple as Susannah. The movie plot differs significantly from the book: it is set twenty years earlier at a much smaller Mounted Police fort and Susannah's parents are dead rather than in India, while the character of the uncle is omitted. The film is a U.S. version of the West rather than the Canadian West of the book.
References[]
- ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 559. ISBN 9780198715542.
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Categories:
- 1936 Canadian novels
- 1936 children's books
- Canadian children's novels
- Series of children's books
- Novels set in Saskatchewan
- Fiction set in the 1890s
- Canadian novels adapted into films
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police in fiction
- J. M. Dent books
- 1930s children's novel stubs