Comparison With The Book
The film makes many substantial changes to the plot of the original book, among them:
- The pirates and Roberta do not appear in the novel. A girl named Jenny lives with the family instead.
- In the novel, the family builds a number of structures, including a much less elaborate treehouse, but ultimately settles in a cave.
- The novel includes a fourth son named Jack who is the third in order of age.
- Many more large mammals, including lions, bears, hippos, buffalo and walruses, are present in the book, while only tigers, elephants, zebras and (though a reptile) an anaconda are present in the film.
- At the end of the novel, Fritz, Francis and Emily(?Jenny?) return to Europe while the rest of the family remains on the island.
- In the book the family is headed to Australia, in this film they are headed toward the German colony of New Guinea
- Turk is the name of one of the dogs while the other is named Juno in the novel, while Turk is accompanied by Duke in the film.
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