Disney Books

Awesome plot and I have never read anything like i; well, except of course, the Harry Potter Series which is 1000 times better than this but that's besides the point. However, overall it is a good read.

This Book was exactly like the tv show! When ever i can't see the eposode,(they cancled the show)i just read the book. They still show some eposode's but they still show some but not this one.

This is the best book in the wold and there is nothing to describe it. So, go and buy it and you will be amased

I have a one year old and I have been reading her Baby Einstein "Animal Homes". I love this book and so I took a chance on this one, "What does Violet See? Birds and Nests". I absolutely love this. First of all, it captures my little one's attention as from the beginning I have been taking her on walks to see birds and nests and listen to the sounds of nature. She loves the real pictures at the end of the book, the close up of all the animals when violet uses her binoculars, and she loves touching the realistic feather at the end. Job well done.

My son has always loved Violet and her adventures. This book is colorful, interesting and includes real photos at the end. My son is 5 now, and when he chooses his books he still brings me the ones about Violet!

Violet loves looking at birds and their nests through her binoculars - and loves photographing what she finds!

My 18 month old daughter adores the Baby Einstein books and this is the newest addition to our growing collection, and our first of the Violet "series".

The way the actual photographs of birds and nests are encorporated into the story (as pictures that Violet takes with her trusty camera) is wonderful. I especially love the "touch and feel" feather toward the end (my daughter likes to 'scratch' it)...a pleasant surprise as none of our other Baby Einstein books have this feature.

But I particularly love Nadeem Zaidi's vivid/bold illustrations, which I believe is the key to the success of the Baby Einstein books (in the eyes of the youngsters who adore them). My daughter loves to point to the pictures as we read to her and she enjoys trying to read this story back to Mommy & Daddy (pointing at pictures while she babbles and turns the pages)). This is one of her new favorite stories - it is one of three books accompanying us on our upcoming airplane trip (and we've got hundreds of books to choose from)!

I am anxious to see the other Violet books as this one is definitely a keeper!

I've been reading this book to my 15-month-old baby since he was still in my tummy. This book makes him laugh and gives him a great comfort too. He even imitates the way I read the stories. So funny! My husband and I incorporate melodies to the words to sing as lullabies to our baby. What a wonderful book!

My 2 year old grandson loves this book and can easily flip through the pages on his own. He enjoys hearing us read the sing-song rhymes and naming all of his Pooh friends, who are captured in bright cheerful colors. We think is a great addition to the toddler library.

This is a wonderful rhyme book of bedtime stories my 2 year old can't get enough of.He will not go to bed without it.The rhymes are short,so it's perfect.You know it's good when,he can memorize these rhymes and tell me the book.Wonderful book.

This is a quick and thoroughly enjoyable collection of interviews with 15 different artists that worked with Walt Disney at the Studios. Mr. Peri states in the Acknowledgements that he was prompted by Didier Ghez (editor of the Walt's People series) to finally collect the interviews and publish them. Thanks both to Don and Didier! Most of the interviews were conducted in the late 1970's with artists that spent most of their career working at the Disney Studios. What surprised me at first was how the artists were all enchanted with Walt Disney; after reading a multitude of Disney biographies, you do get the sense that Walt was a benevolent dictator--but a dictator nonetheless. A majority of the artists interviewed stuck with Walt during the Animator's Strike of 1941. If you study any work on Disney and animation, the Animator's Strike is often seen as a watershed in the history of the Studio, prompting the mentality that Walt lost a lot of faith in his employees. With the interviews presented by Peri, you get a sense that Walt did favor the artists that stuck by him. I finished Walt's People Volume 1 (Ed. by Ghez) shortly after this title. There are some similarities in the scope of the two books, but they are both valuable resources on their own. The interviews presented by Peri were done at a time when there was not a lot being written about the artists that worked directly with Walt Disney. After reading the interviews, you come away with a sense of what it was like to work with Walt Disney and to work at the Studios. I feel like I have a better understanding of how Walt worked during the early years of the Studios. The artists included animators, designers and voice actors:

* Ken Anderson
* Les Clark
* Larry Clemmons
* Jack Cutting
* Don Duckwall
* Marcellite Garner
* Harper Goff
* Floyd Gottfredson
* Dick Huemer
* Wilfred Jackson
* Eric Larson
* Clarence Nash
* Ken O'Connor
* Herb Ryman
* Ben Sharpsteen

The stories and anecdotes that each artist shares are humorous, wistful and passionate. These artists truly loved their jobs and working with Walt Disney.

"...he didn't think of himself as Walt Disney. He thought of Walt Disney as an entity, an organization, and he spoke of Walt Disney as an organization, for which everybody worked and not the personal part of the name. A lot of people put Walt down because they didn't get along with him or they got canned or they were chewed out by him, and naturally they probably make more or less severe remarks about him and understandably so. He had a great ego, and because of this ego he could overcome a lot of difficulties and obstacles because he believed in himself. He believed what other people didn't believe, and he was proven right time after time after time, even with the bankers. Snow White was called "Disney's Folly," because what--an animated cartoon to run for over an hour? It's Impossible! Nobody will sit through a cartoon that long. Well that was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."

--Les Clark (p. 123, Working With Walt)

Bottom Line: This is a wonderful resource to have at hand. It is not for everyone--you really need to have an interest in animation, the studios or what working with Walt Disney was like in order to fully realize the necessity of a title like this. I give it a high Geek Factor rating because of its focus, even though the book is extremely accessible and easy to read. But if you are interested in learning a lot about the artists, the studio and Walt Disney, this is a great place to start or to add to your collection. This book will foster a greater appreciation for the animated films and shorts. It is also one of the few places you can read the actual words of the artists that never received a lot of acclaim outside the arena of animation fans.

As a dedicated Waltphile, I believe there can't be too many books about Walt Disney. Don Peri's excellent collection of interviews with many rarely heard from Disney Legends helps to make that case.

Working with Walt offers these artists their own day in the sun at long last and more fully rounds out the portraits of Walt painted by biographers and authors like Bob Thomas (Walt Disney: An American Original), Howard and Amy Green (Remembering Walt), and Pat Williams (How to Be Like Walt).

In the late 1970s, Don Peri was a young man who happened to be in the right place at the right time to capture so many of these voices, now gone from us forever. He has done a more than admirable job in offering us these priceless interviews. In the book, he hinted that more had been conducted than are in this volume. Hoping that means we can expect a Working with Walt, Volume 2!

Nice job, Don. I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about what made Walt's studio and career so singularly remarkable, as told by those who lived the legend.

How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life (How to Be Like) WALT DISNEY: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL Remembering Walt

What a wonderful collection of interviews Disney historian Don Peri has assembled in his book Working With Walt: Interviews With Disney Artists. Many of the Disney artists featured in this book are relatively unknown, but highly influential in the development of the incomparable art of Disney animation and entertainment.

Through interviews with the artists who worked directly with Walt Disney, some from the very early days before Mickey Mouse even started talking, this book opens a window into what it was like to work and create with the genius Walt Disney. Fifteen animators, directors, art designers, and voice actors tell their stories of how they first started working for Disney, what it was like to meet the legendary man himself, their (usually) fond memories of Walt, and the joy of creating during the golden age of animation in the 1930s. The artists vivid details of life at the Disney studio, poignantly recalled, bring the reader back in time and place to where the magic happened - Mickey found his voice, Snow White went from a dream to life, and a magic kingdom was built. The darker times are recalled too, the constant financial strains of the early days, the strike that almost ended the studio (and did end many friendships), the strain of working 20 hours a day to create the perfect animation, and Walt's last few weeks.

The author's admiration for Walt Disney and the Disney artists shines through each interview, with his adept interviewing skills used to draw out deep memories and emotions from the Disney artists, many of whom rarely granted interviews, but all of whom spoke candidly about the complexity of Walt Disney, who could be full of praise one moment, and in the next, express disappointment like a "wounded bear" over animation that didn't meet his exacting standards of perfection.

We are granted insights worth many an "E-Ticket" from the voice of Donald Duck, the voice of Minnie Mouse, the great animators from almost the very beginning, the creative story artists, the designers of Disneyland, and even the man who drew the daily Mickey Mouse comic strip for decades. I had never heard of any of these Disney artists before reading this book, but they are all unsung heroes in the Disney phenomenon. This book is sure to be part of every Disney fan's library, and I highly recommend it.

Abu Monkeys Around: A Story From Disney's Alladdin is a great book. Kids will love it. Abu gets into a lot of trouble and its rhyming text makes it easy to read.

Children will love Abu Monkeys Around: a Story from Disney's Alladin. Its ryhming text is just perfect for beginning readers.

88 pages to be read outloud for 4-8 yr. olds. Adapted from the film, this is a must-have for Disney fans. Fifteen chapters appropriate for bedtime stories.

Aladdin is one of the best Disney classics of all time! The story is about a so called Street Rat named Aladdin with his copanion Abu, who befriends a genie and falls in love with a princess named Jasmine. Once he wishes to be a prince to marry Jasmine, but Jafar, the sultin's most trusted advisor, finds out that Aladdin has the lamp he wants. He has his parrot Iago take the lamp and wishes to become sultin. But Aladdin outwits and defeats Jafar. He lives happily ever after with his princess.

Well, I got this book because nobody loves Mickey more than me (no, really). While I expected much more from it, I'm not disappointed by it. Basically, it's a little picture book full of scenes from various Mickey movies with one-line advice captions on each page pertaining to the scene shown... did that make sense?? Let me explain... there's a picture of the scene from "Fantasia" where he's leading the marching brooms and the caption on the bottom says "Be a leader." You got it now??

It's a very elementary book, but it's adorable none the less. And it's full of Mickey pics, which everyone MUST love!

A charming collection of timeless advice for getting through life, this little book confirmed my suspicions that Mickey Mouse was way ahead of his time. The little mouse has faced it all in his eighty or ninety years of making us laugh, smile and think. And evidently, he's learned a thing or two. The illustrations, taken from old animated shorts and features, are delightful; the text is short, sweet and ripe fruit for thought. The perfect, life-affirming read while waiting for a friend, sitting by a pond, or recovering from thorassic surgery.

I love this book and I want to become a Disney Animator too! Inside the book said that i can creating my own characters and stories. I hope my dreams will come true.

I am 14 years old and am hoping to become a Disney Animator. This book comes from a very reliable source, Don Hahn (producer of many Disney Films). This book gave me very useful information about what to do to prepare myself to become an animator, and also very interesting facts about what goes into making a genuine Disney Animated Feature Film. I would recommend this book to any Disney fan or future animator

While the story is great for little ones, the illustrations are most FASCINATING!!!! My 2-year old daughter absolutely LOVES the pictures in this book. Beautifully done. Highly recommended!!!!

Not only if this a fun story for little ones, the beautiful illistrations and added foil only make the book more enjoyable. I'd recommend this book for ages 2-5

I love Walt Disney's The Aristocats starring Phil Harris, I love the book & the video.

Phil Harris in this video plays Thomas O'Malley the cat.

At the first of the video, Edgar drives the horse & 1 passenger Madame Adelaide Bonfamille with her 4 cats.

Madame Bonfamille's attorney was named Mr. Georges Hautecourt.

One night Madame Bonfamille had gone to bed when Edgar slipped out of the house with the cats in the basket. Edgar goes on the motorcycle & takes the cats with him & the two dogs chase him & Edgar hits a bump & the cats fly out.
Then later he sets for the streets of Paris.

I loved this book!!!

How could you not love the Aristocats? Follow them as they try to fin dtheir way home with the help of Thomas the orange alley cat.