Disney Books

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The Disney Girl Books are excellent books. I thought it was really nice. My favorite character is Ariel. She's the most like me. The Disney Girl books are about girls that are 8 and 9 years old who have something special. Each girl relates with a Disney princess. I think that's cool.

Love this book. My 3.5 y.o. daughter has really come to love the Disney Princesses. After the 50th time reading, seeing and hearing Cinderella in our house, these are a welcome addition to our collection. New stories with the characters that we know well. Some original stories, most adapted from "new adventure" stories of the various Disney princesses.

19 stories in all. Each story takes about 10 minutes to read to my daughter. Book is 1" thick and is rather heavy, at almost 3lbs. Silver leaf edges makes for a beautiful gift. Photos in the table of contents make it easy for children to pick their story.

Stories are written well and flow off the tongue easily. Also, I like that they're not overly cheesy (like this one: Beauties in Bloom (Pictureback(R))), moralistic stories. They're fluff, but they're decent fluff.

Includes 200 stickers in the back of the book (most rather tiny). If you don't want your child defacing their book by putting stickers in it, I'd suggest cutting them out with an X-acto knife before giving the book to a child. The only negative I have about this book is I think the publisher could have made the sticker pages a tearout.

Clean, easy-to read print. Good font and font size. Words and pictures don't overlap. Nice, colorful images represent the characters we've come to know and love. (Ever notice how some "Disney" stuff has character drawings that only vaguely look like the character from the movie? Well, these are done well.)

I recently purchased this at Ross Dress 4 Less for 5.99 but would pay the $10.87 that Amazon is charging today (on the day of posting).

This book is wonderfull...excellent quality and nice stories...My children love it as much as the rest of the collection!

I would very highly recommend Here is the Arctic Winter for kids up to 8-9 years old. Her haunting, cyclical verse and the beautiful illustrations create a tale my children demand to hear over and over. Actually, all of the books in Ms. Dunphy's "Here Is..." series are excellent --check them out!

Madeline Dumphy aided by the illustrations of Alan James Robinson deftly presents the quiet and austere beauty found in the frigid arctic in her book Here Is the Arctic Winter. Young children will be mesmerized by the various animals to be found in the arctic.

I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to present values to children at a very young age. Among the values which should be introduced is the positive view of nature and beauty. Any book that helps children understand and appreciate the beauty of nature should be praised and certainly Here Is the Arctic Winter is among those.

The prose is told as a cumulative story with each page adding another line to the verse. Those familiar with some basic principles of reading instruction will recognize the value of this kind of tale. An added bonus to this is children learn such names of animals as caribou, narwhal and ptarmigan.

The prose expresses the quiet beauty of the arctic during its long snow covered night. We can well imagine the howl of the wolf breaking the silence.

"Here are the wolves
who howl at the sky
that is dark day and night,
where the sun does not rise
in this cold world of white:
Here is the Arctic winter"

Robinson's illustrations are gorgeous and skillfully match the prose provided by Madeline Dumphy. I love the image of the polar bear walking through the fields of snow and ice. Parents will enjoy pointing out the various animals seen on the pages of this book.

I gladly recommend this book as a gift to a child as a way of encouraging an appreciation and love of nature.

Rolie Polie Olie is my 23 month old daughter's favorite TV character. She now owns three of the Rolie Polie Olie books. This is counting book from 1 to 10 and will be a help in teaching her how to count. We plan to purchase more as they become available. The book "Rolie Polie Olie" that we purchased for her last fall was and still is her favorite book. Hopefully Disney will make more Rolie Polie Olie merchandise available soon. Right now the selection is limited.

At last a Rolie Polie Olie book I can actually give to my 18 month old without fear of having pages torn. He is mad for anything Rolie and this boardbook is no exception.

The book concentrates on counting the numbers 1 to 10 with each page having a rhyme prompting the child to find the appropiate number of items.

All the main characters from the show appear. The rhymes are quite bouncy and fun and the pictures, whilst not as detailed (background wise) as the show or storybook are still cute and colourful.

A fun way to learn.

We ordered this book because after I saw the movie, I admired the animation. I can say that this book is quite easy to understand, and it makes drawing easy and fun. I admire all of the "How to Draw Disney..." series books very much, as I have a few of them. I would definetely reccomend this book to anyone I know that enjoys Disney films, and I also would like to add that I have drawings that I drew from Disney's Atlantis all over my room.
These books helped me to draw quite well, even though everyone said that I already drew good. But now, my drawings are to MY satisfactory. I would like to repeat one last time that I am very glad this book came out, and that it has very easy-to-learn step by step instructions.
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I am a rabid ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE fan and have an extensive collection of books, toys, and posters relating to this film. And this is one of the best books there is! The film has a highly stylized look, and this book helps a lot to make it easy to reproduce it. The instructions are simple, as is typical of Walter Foster books, and the illustrations are marvelous. My ATLANTIS character pictures look much better since I got this book. Nowadays, this title is somewhat hard to get, as it was published in January, but it's worth the hunt! You don't have to be an ATLANTIS fan to love this book! Definitely one of Walter Foster's best!

The book came within a week which was great as we wanted it for a trip we were taking.

My daughter who is two absolutely loves this book. She loves to name all the characters she sees throughout the book!

ISBN 0717283364 - My faith in Disney is restored. Having just reviewed another Disney edition of this book Disney's the Jungle Book (Little Golden Book) that was a small letdown, I'm thrilled to find Disney really is as good as I think. I'm copy and pasting the recap portion of that review, because it's the same:

Mowgli, left in the jungle as an infant, is taken, by Bagheera the panther, to a wolf family's den to be raised. The animals are his friends and he learns from them until, suddenly, Shere Khan returns to the jungle. Like all tigers, Shere Khan hates man - and Mowgli, now ten, is a "man". His friends work to convince him to leave the jungle, but Mowgli doesn't want to go, facing various dangers to stay in the place he knows as his home. Until, that is, he sees a young human girl singing at the water and follows her home to her village.

Disney's illustrations in both editions are worthy of 5 stars, but this one actually GETS those 5 stars because the text is much better. Without being excessively wordy, this edition goes into more detail, not leaving out important details (in ISBN 0307003264, Mowgli's adoptive wolf mother doesn't even say a word when the pack votes to send him away, for example). The pace is a little slower here, allowing the story to feel far less hurried.

Disney's Wonderful World of Reading series are, indeed, wonderful - a set no child's library is complete without - and the added bonus of introducing your child to Kipling early in their life is just the icing on the cake.

The artwork in this book is very colorfully attractive and true to the Disney's Jungle Book movie. It is amazing that so much detail was put into the illustrations.

Another excellent feature about this book is how well the story was condensed from the film. It's almost all here. Often the Golden Books base their stories from segments taken from the movie. That is not the case here.

The story of Mowgli, the man-cub, befriended by the animals of the Jungle in India comes to life in concise and easy to read words. Bagheera the wise panther, Baloo the bumbling bear, and all his other jungle friends are all here as they make their way to the man-village. Mowgli saves the day by fending off the sly tiger, Shere Khan.

This is a very good book.

Kids Say the Darndest Things!, by Art Linkletter, is a collection of highlights from his talk show House Party. It was originally published in 1957. It is illustrated by Charles Schultz (of Peanuts fame), and originally featured an introduction by Walt Disney (later releases have an introduction by Bill Cosby, who hosted a second incarnation of Kids the Darndest Things! and did a poor job).

In a popular segment on Linkletter's program House Party, he would interview small children, who often gave hilarious responses to (mostly) innocent questions. In this book, Linkletter presents some of his favorite moments from the show, and talks about some of the program's background, including how the children were selected.

Although it loses something in its transfer to print, nearly everything in this book ranges from the amusing to the hilarious. Only the last chapter, a collection of stories that didn't happen on the show (and mostly aren't true), disappoints. These are stories marketed as real things children did but actually written by adults trying (and failing) to be clever. On the whole, they come off as annoying. Stories like these still make the rounds on email, and they still aren't funny or credible.

On the whole, Kids Say the Darndest Things! is a funny, funny book.

I found a used copy of the Kids Still Say the Darndest Things and my son picked it up. He keeps telling me that he doesn't like to read. He read this book in one day, and asked me to order the one that preceded it, so I ordered KIDS SAY THE DARDEST THINGS,and he read that one in a day as well!!. It's not exactly a classic novel, but as long as he is enjoying reading, I think it will lead him to pick up other things that interest him. I would recommend this book to anyone, as there are many very humorous things that children said to Art Linkletter, and in some ways, a lot of that innocence in children is not so much there these days. It's a great family book to have around.

This book was adorable! A rare find - I picked it up at a secondhand clothes store. I loved the illustrations by Schultz, and the things that Linkletter got the children to talk about were priceless. Sure it is a little dated, but children's innocence and candor are timeless.

The new Ron is about Kim Possibles best friend Ron Stoppable getting a new hair do.So as Ron walks the halls at Middleton High all sorts of cool people start to want to be Rons new friend. Will Kim ever get the old Ron back? Read the book and you will find out.

All incurable Kim Possible fans like myself will love this book! It is esentially the hilarious episode The New Ron written very well and neat. The New Ron is a great episode, Ron's new hair cut makes him cool but Kim thinks it may be a change for the worse. Also the zany Senor Senior Sr and Senor Senior Jr are introduced in this episode, they are such great characters and their background and motives for evil are explained in this storyline.

The story is written very well and accompanied by many photo's from the episode. While the pages are printed in black & white on a standard paper, unlike the gorgeous full color cinemanga KP book, this works well as it is written not comic book and for the price it's an excellent buy. Although I am too old to benefit, I guess this is the type of novel young children could get into to develop an interest in reading and improve their skills.

Overall this is a very fun book and a total steal for the price, also there was a bonus free holographic collectors card inside, so if your interested you should pick up a copy before they stop putting the cards in. I have seen similar if not idenicle cards on ebay for around $10 a set of 4.

Two precious pups who live up to their names go on an adventure that has enthralled audiences since 1955! All the beauty of the Disney artwork brings the story to life in this sweet Little Golden Book that will certainly earn a place on your child's bookshelf for years to come.

Baby Boomers -- get a copy for yourself and relive some awesome memories and pass it on to a child in your circle!

It is about two people and their dogs.It starts out that it was Christmas and Jim Dear gives Darling(his wife) a present and it turns out that it was a beutiful puppy.Then they went to sleep and they put the puppy(Lady) on her couch.Then Jim Dear and Darling went upstairs to go to bed.But then Lady started whinning and almost going up the stairs.Jim Dear got her and they went upstairs.The next day Jim Dear and Darling got her a collar and Lady was so happy and she went to tell her friends.I won't tell you the rest because i'm sure you will read it.