Introduction
The movie and book have their differences and their similarities. This movie is you have to watch the movie then read the book for it not to be a big bummer. They have to change some of the scenes for time and for it to be appropriate for kids.
Similarities
The movie and book both have Rowdy, Daisy, and Jay berry in it. There was a circus train crash. They had the monkeys being drunk. The Old man in the mountains. They had the pretty girl. They had grandpa and mama and papa. They had daisy's leg being crippled. The trapping scene. Jay was the same age.
The movie and the book also have differences. Some of the differences were that Rowdy wasn't a blue tick hound in the movie. They didn't talk about Bayliss Hatcher in the book. There were only four monkeys in the movie and in the book there were twenty-nine. They called the big monkey Henri instead of Jimbo. They said that The old man in the mountains was God. The circus was named Cirque De France instead of being the Johnson Brother Circus. Disney messed up big time