Disney Books

This book is very well designed. Inside there is a sticker book, and a booklet that has spaces for stickers. You put the correct stickers next to the captions and sort of build the story with the stickers. However, the stickers can last more than once. You can peel them off their spots and put them anywhere you like. It includes over 60 colorful stickers. A good buy.

My 2 year old LOVES this book! It is the perfect story length for putting her down at night. She loves Disney Pixar characters, so this was perfect for her. She listens attentively and I even enjoy the stories. We keep reading them over and over, but since there is a variety, it's not annoying. Good purchase.

Very interactive with young tots who love the sea creatures

I found this book to be a lot of fun to read and many great images to look at. Stitch is a great new character and this story is a lot of fun.

This is a hardcover book that you could purchase for 1 year, during the 30th Anniversary of Disneyland. Disneyland opened in 1955 so this was for the 1985 anniversary year. It was only sold in the Disneyland Park and not in any stores. Disneyland has been producing a hardcover book every year for some time, and most years there are only slight changes made from the previous years. But when a big Anniversary date comes about every 5 years, they change the title and cover to reflect the special occassion. New attractions and attractions that are under construction are usually shoe-horned into the last few pages each year. Almost no text except for picture captions, the book is made up of full page and half page color photos of attractions, buildings, and people havingfun in the Park. The older ones like this one are getting harder to find.

My 8 year old son loved this book from the library so much that we had to buy it. It's great!

Early one morning a fews days after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the phone rang at Walt Disney's house. The Studio called to tell him that 700 army troops had set up camp at the Walt Disney studio campus, in order to protect the nearby airfield. The long war hurt the Disney company many way, including the loss of key staff to the armed forces, reduction in commercial output and attendance, and cuts in overseas theatrical releases of their films. Despite these issues that could have caused resentment of the wars interference in Disney growth and success, the company dove in to do their part to support the war effort.

Whether it was in producing great war time comedy animated shorts such as "Der Fuhreres Face" to keep up the public morale; or educational films to teach soldiers how to operate a certain weapon or avoid disease; or deeply researched theory films like "Victory Through Airpower"; or animated shorts that promoted war bonds... the studio worked overtime to do their part.

But one of the most personal efforts they produced, free of charge, was the design of original artistic logos for the troops. These were used on individual planes, tanks, and ships. They also helped draft designs for organized armoured units, air wings and squadrons, infantry units and others.

This book chronicles the war effort by the studio, the tremendous cost the war had on the studio and setback on their growth as they suffered along with the rest of America. The beautiful color photos reproduce the actual designs in page after page of color photos. A wonderful book for the Disneyphile, OR for those that are interested in unit design artwork from planes, etc. from WWII.

If you want to see the actual logos they made, the book "Disney Dons Dogtags: The Best of Disney Military Insignia from World War II" focuses on that aspect of the Disney war effort and features more of the actual logos than any other.

I highly reccomend and give 5 stars.

I truly enjoyed this book, even if it is for kids; I'm a big kid at heart! Donald Duck is a "crack-up!" His voice alone is enough to drive me into hysterics, not to mention his hilarious antics!

You just have to see how mischievous and overbearing he is in the setting of Egypt's Bey of El Dagga! It's enough to drive an insane person SANE.

And those nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, are as precocious as ever; wait till you see how they react when someone kidnaps poor little Huey. Wow! Speaking of adventure!

The neat twist to this book, Gemstone's first-ever "Choose-Your-Own-Disney-Adventure," is that you, the reader, help decide the fate of Donald and Company. How unique is that?

This is a modern tale of Egyptian intrigue that I recommend highly. Your kids will love it!

This little Golden Book is the 4th and final volume in the 'Return to Oz' series. Although the previous three books focus on 1/3 of the movie at a time, this book recalls what has happened in the previous adventures and adds to it, with the later pages mainly focusing on the Return to Emerald City. The story is as follows . . .
Dorothy and Billina follow the Yellow Brick Road and reach the Emerald City, which is now in ruins. After seeing stone statues of her old friends Tin Woodman and Lion, she meets Tik-Tok, who promises to help find the Scarecrow. Inside the castle of Princess Mombi the Wicked Witch, they all get locked up in the tallest tower, where they meet and befriend Jack Pumpkinhead, who escapes with them. At the Nome King's Mountain, it has been revealed that the Nome King transformed Scarecrow into an ornament, but Dorothy breaks the spell and frees him. As soon as the spell's broken, the Nome King's Mountain begins crumbling down. But Dorothy finds the Ruby Slippers, and wishes for them all to be back in Oz. Back in the ruins, Dorothy wishes for the Emerald City and all the citizens to be restored to the way they were before. Once done, the Citizens of Oz have a parade in honour of Dorothy and her friends. The Scarecrow suggests for Dorothy to stay and be Queen of Oz, but Dorothy says that she can't, knowing that her family would be worried about her. When she wishes that she could be in both places at the same time, an image of a beautiful young girl appears. Dorothy helps the girl get out of the mirror, and it is revealed to be Ozma, Queen and Rightful Ruler of Oz, also Jack's mother. Ozma tells Dorothy how she was imprisoned by Mombi. Ozma sits on the throne, and Dorothy gives her the Ruby Slippers, on condition that anytime she wants to come back to Oz and go back to Kansas, Ozma shall grant the wish. Dorothy promises that she will never forget her friends as they say good-bye to her and Ozma clicks her heels together . . .
This is the best book of the series, with lovely pictures, again in a style done different to the previous volumes. The first picture of Dorothy and Billina on the Yellow Brick Road may please some people of MGM's Oz because the scenery is done in that style. Also, there are some out-takes and changes. Such changes are Dorothy making more than 1 wish for Oz with the Ruby Slippers and Ozma looking like Dorothy (although I don't think I shall ever understand why they chose that concept for the movie books). The out-takes are Kansas (so unfortunately we don't see a loving reunion embrace with Aunt Em, Uncle Henry and Toto at the end), encountering the Wheelers (although one can be seen in the Throne Room), Dorothy's friends making their guesses and Billina's importance in the victory, and furthermore of Mombi's involvement. It's interesting, though, how the Gump is NOT mentioned in being the escape from Mombi, and how he doesn't appear until the Emerald City Parade and is more seen after that. One picture that is almost exactly like the comic, is Dorothy helping Ozma to step out from the mirror, although there is a little mistake in forgetting to draw Dorothy's left arm/Ozma's right arm connection - Ozma's shoes are more clearly seen than the movie. Also interesting, is that in the final picture, Dorothy is wearing a new pair of shoes unlike her old Kansas blacks, and is holding Billina, making us wonder if in this book Billina is going back to Kansas with Dorothy (or not?, as the movie goes). The only *small* thing I don't like about Ozma is that in her first picture her head is drawn a little uncomfortable and later her hair isn't long enough. In this book (and the comic) we can see the Guardian of the Gates, the Patchwork Girl's hair, the Shaggyman (not Santa Clause) and a few other characters from the movie's parade. As before, many pictures are illustrated versions of movie-photos.
Even with the abandoned Kansas ending (which would have been nice and made the book a little better), this was a lovely ending to the Little Golden Return to Oz Book Set. I recommend this and almost all other 'Return to Oz Movie Books'.

This is a really good Doug book. All Doug fans will love it!! It's got really good pictures!! A must for a Doug fans (like me!!)