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Share your favorite storybooks. 
Here's two of mine.
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What's so interesting about these two is they are the first storybooks of the properties and take place very early in their development.
The Adventures of Strawberry Shortcake and Her Friends predates the animated special and is quite different from it. Strawberryland seems to exist inside the human world. The Berrykids are kind of like the Littles or the Borrowers. Drawn as tiny realistic looking children. Not stylized like the cartoon. Custard is in it but drawn sort of realistic and sort of like a rag doll. There is a real cat in story too. Lives at the farm the Berrykids go to to hunt down supplies. There's also Berrybirds but no Purple Pie Man. The illustrations are lovely. It's just kind of odd.
Princess of Power: She-Ra, the Princess of power is like a very condensed version of Secret of the Sword with some changes. The most noticeable change is when Adora changes to She-Ra her tiara is turned upside down and used as a mask. This was dropped very early in development of She-Ra and didn't make it to the cartoon. This was also used in the Princess of Power mini comics. From what I understand using the tiara as a mask was dropped because in play testing Mattel found out girls didn't like the doll's face covered. Another big change is Swift Wind is a girl, hence the pink toy. Swift Wind was changed to a male white horse in the cartoon. The rest of the story more or less follows an abbreviated retelling of Secret of the Sword using the toy designs instead of Filmation designs. Except for Madame Razz and Shadow Weaver, who didn't get toys in the original line, which are based on Filmation.
Here's two of mine.
storybooks.JPG
What's so interesting about these two is they are the first storybooks of the properties and take place very early in their development.
The Adventures of Strawberry Shortcake and Her Friends predates the animated special and is quite different from it. Strawberryland seems to exist inside the human world. The Berrykids are kind of like the Littles or the Borrowers. Drawn as tiny realistic looking children. Not stylized like the cartoon. Custard is in it but drawn sort of realistic and sort of like a rag doll. There is a real cat in story too. Lives at the farm the Berrykids go to to hunt down supplies. There's also Berrybirds but no Purple Pie Man. The illustrations are lovely. It's just kind of odd.
Princess of Power: She-Ra, the Princess of power is like a very condensed version of Secret of the Sword with some changes. The most noticeable change is when Adora changes to She-Ra her tiara is turned upside down and used as a mask. This was dropped very early in development of She-Ra and didn't make it to the cartoon. This was also used in the Princess of Power mini comics. From what I understand using the tiara as a mask was dropped because in play testing Mattel found out girls didn't like the doll's face covered. Another big change is Swift Wind is a girl, hence the pink toy. Swift Wind was changed to a male white horse in the cartoon. The rest of the story more or less follows an abbreviated retelling of Secret of the Sword using the toy designs instead of Filmation designs. Except for Madame Razz and Shadow Weaver, who didn't get toys in the original line, which are based on Filmation.
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