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I think the page should split to differentiate between the book and films. Thoughts? Annie D 00:40, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Would it serve any greater purpose? If someone was willing to flesh out both pages to be a good grade, then I'd be for it. But the way I see it, it'd just cut this current page down to a smaller size, and we'd have a stub page created for the book. Orichalcon 12:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. So I'll just move the movie infobox down and put the book infobox. -- Annie D 01:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'Controversy' section[edit]

This section claims that the film contains a number of alleged drug references. Are there any sources for this? If none can be provided, the section should be removed as original research. Terraxos (talk) 12:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removed as still unreferenced. Somno (talk) 07:33, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Dates[edit]

How is it possible that the book was written in 1899 if the author Ethel C. Pedley had died in 1898?! See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Pedley

Adapted/serialised in Story Teller[edit]

Dot & the Kangaroo was serialised (with illustrations iirc) in the British magazine& tape partwork Storyteller, in the early '80s. Possibly an abridged version? - was over about 3 issues, had part the story in the mag and somebody reading it on the tape. 109.224.137.121 (talk) 17:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In issues 8,9 & 10 & read by Carole Boyd - according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_Teller_(Marshall_Cavendish)109.224.137.121 (talk) 17:29, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]