Disney Books

This book is an awesome compilation of all the princess stories. It's written very nicely, not at all like the usual princess story books, which are written strictly for children. This is definitely a book an adult can enjoy with their child. The only downside is that your child will most likely not be able to read it on his or her own until they are able to read chapter books, in which case they'll most likely be interested in reading other types of books. Overall, I think this is a great book. It gives my daughter and myself some quiet time together. As all parent's know, that is always priceless.

Yes, it's wieldy, but my 27lb three year old will carry this one out of her library for me to read these long stories! We got 2 of the Disney movies after reading the stories (Mermaid and Cinderella) and she identifies the story details and pics/photos from this lovely book. Nice full page pics on every facing page.

Only criticism is after the Cinderella story there is no wedding picture or one of the prince and herself together which my daughter asked for.

When this wonderous book arrived in the mail this morning, we paused for a moment after we took it out of the box and said, "WHOAH!" This book is big and beautiful.
I first purchased this treasury five years ago for my best friend's newborn daughter. At the time, I remembered
thinking the book was too special and elegant to give to a child. Yes, I gave it to my friend's daughter!! I've searched for my own copy ever since. This Christmas, I bought a copy for my 88 year old Aunt (who introduced me to "Sleeping Beauty") AND a copy for myself at last! My neighbor who lives down the hall from me (a 55 year old adult lady) just looked at the book and told me SHE wants a copy for HERSELF! You can tell this book is already popular; and the price is a real bargain for the size and wonderful content.
This treasury collects the ultimate editions of Disney's "SNOW WHITE," "CINDERELLA," "SLEEPING BEAUTY", "THE LITTLE MERMAID," "ALADDIN", and "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST." What sets this book apart from other Disney collections is that each story is told in lengthy detail, broken down into Chapters like a novel. The dialogue is taken almost directly from the films on which they are based. Each story is approximately 94 pages long. Each page of text is followed by a full-page color illustration; again looking exactly like the Disney film on which it is based. Each page of text has a detailed border illustration. If you remember, each classic Disney fairy tale film began with a large storybook being opened; the pages turning. The style and content of this book reminds me of those classic film's beginnings.
The ornate details and size make this the perfect treasury for ADULTS to indulge in their own Disney Princess fantasies, or fond recollections of long ago vanished childhoods when we saw and appreciated Disney films for the very first time in a real movie theatre!! You don't have to, and probably won't want to, share this with kids; but your sweet, favorite Aunt and adult neighbor will likely want their own copy.
Also, Thank You Amazon for the FAST delivery!!

I am starting a collection of books for my future children and this is part of it. I read all the stories and I loved all the pictures. This is the perfect book for beginning readers and Disney lovers.

This has been a GREAT book for us! We got it for our 4 year old daughter for Christmas and now, 2 months later we are STILL reading at least 1 chapter at naptime and 2 chapters at bedtime EVERYDAY! I can speak for my daughter and most of her 4 year old girlfriends: They are SOOOO into the Disney Princesses--the pictures in this book are FABULOUS; while the stories are complete (identical to the movies). We don't let our daughter watch the movies (she is SUPERSENSITIVE to scary stuff) and yet the stories give a vivid picture (while allowing us to edit out the more graphic words as needed: i.e. "kill, die, etc.). On those nites when the "fearsome fours" are intense, she even tells us to skip over the pages with the witches or tells us not to say "Malificent,...because I may have nitemares." I cannot recommend this book more highly as it has ALL the princess stories, beautiful pictures and will be a keepsake to pass on for generations!

Whether you are wanting a companion to the wonderful film, to learn more about animation, to keep a little piece of the fantastic art for yourself or simply to inspire you by sitting on your coffee table, you will not be disappointed with this book. The layout and presentation are stunning and you will treasure this beatiful book for years to come.

My suggestion is to also buy the soundtrack and listen to it while flipping through the pages of this book. You will find yourself inspired - no matter what sort of day you've had.

Congratulations to John Culhane for a beautifully realized presentation.

Fantasia 2000: Visions of Hope was an extremely good book. My entire family enjoyed looking at the photos. The book provides an extensive overview of every segment of the film.It helps you to understand the framework of each segment, and prepares you extremely well for the movie. The book even lets you in on hidden jokes in the movie such as where to spot Mickey and Minnie in "Pomp and Circumstance," or where to spot a hidden Nina in "Rhapsody in Blue". The book is a must have for fans of Fantasia 2000, fans of Disney, or even other people who just love these sorts of coffee table books.

This book is really spectacular. The illistrations are supurb and the writing is just great. Whether you like Fantasia/2000, or you're into classical music, or you love Disney animation, this is a really wonderful read. Well worth the price!

This was a beautiful book. Interpolated with pictures from the new Disney film it is for any fan of the new film. I did enjoy his other book on the Fantasia more. This though in detail on each of the ssegments individually there is not enough info on the overall creative process. I thimk this book belongs first for any Fantasia 2000 fan, secod for any Disney fan, and and a distant third for anyone who enjoys reading about the making of movies.

This is a brilliant companion to a brilliant film. Countless colorful stills from the film and commentary from its creators makes this a must for collectors and fans of the film. Culhane continues to be a master of Disney animation and this book is consistant with, if not better than, all of his worthwhile looks at the Disney animated films. If you like this book, you'll adore The Art of The Huntchback of Notre Dame. This oversized art book in some ways is more satisfying than the film itself. Huntchback the book provides an in depth and pictoral overview of the classic story and the development of the animated film, including beautiful conceptual artwork from illustrator Peter DeSeve and insightful character development sketches. Where the film, while almost perfectly animated, lacked heart the book makes up for. If you can find it, get it. But unitl you find that, Fantasia 2000 will more than keep you and your eyes busy.

This book is amazing!! It's great for huge Disney lovers (like me lol!) or if you're just interested in Mickey Mouse! It has tons of fun stuff inside and I enjoyed reading and looking at all of it! I totally reccomend that everyone get it! :)

Tieman's books in regards to all things Disney are always an easy read and a thorougly researched treasure.

If you are a Disney/Mickey fan this book is a MUST! Amazon offers (NO DOUBT) the best price you will find! You can nearly purchase two for the price of one on Amazon (at least I was fortunate to do so).

If you are into memorbilia this book is a real keepsake! Nearly every other page has a sweet surprise reproduced to take you back in time.

These books are an investment.

Robert Tieman's Mickey Mouse Treasures is another winner. We all knew it would be, but the 6 pages about "the Mickey that never was" did come as a beautiful surprise.

This is the third and final book in the series written by Robert Tieman. The first two books were fun and wonderful, but this was his best of the lot in my opinion. Of course, I am a Mickey Mouse fan and this book is all about Mickey. This book contains really wonderful reproductions of old Mickey Mouse memorabilia, the originals of which I could never afford. If you like Mickey you really must own this book!

My little girl loves Disney princess and when she saw this at the store and her daddy and I couldn't resist getting it when we saw her little face light up even though its big and has paper pages. She "reads" this book all the time and hasn't ripped any of the pages. She loves it and lets me read to her sometimes and sometimes she just looks at the pictures. Great little book for your princess! She is 19 months old :)

We checked this out from the library, and my 4-year old daughter loved it so much she didn't want to return it. So, we bought it and she still loves it and has me read it to her at every chance.

I bought this for my two year old grandaughter. This is a very nicely written book. The stories are different and short enough to hold her attention. I would deffinitely buy this book again.

My two girls (ages 2.5 and 4) and I LOVE this book (the first one too)! They ask to read it ALL the time and I love that the stories are NOT the same as the classic ones - it is nice to read something different and yet still princess.

The princess franchise can get a little scary sometimes. Hundreds of pink books and allot of them are the same. As a Beauty and the Beast fan, and as an adult with no children, I often pick up Disney Princess books with exceptional art, just for the art.

So I can't imagine being a parent trying to sort out which of these Princess Books would be worth buying. Many of them have the same exact stories, or just rehash the movie story line with old stock clip art from the movie. Blah Sometimes though some of these princess books go too far. The princess magazines often have pages of comics that are so displaced from the original movie, so out of character, so wild and crazy....not even a three year old would but into it. One in particular comes to mind where Belle goes to visit her father for Christmas, because you know, she just felt like it, and Beast didn't seem to mind. Later Beast brings everyone in the village Christmas presents. (Uh.....riiighhhht!)


This book however has really delightful new stories and art. It features Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast.

This is a personal favorite because all the stories are really light hearted and seem like tiny little gems of the casual day to day life of the characters. They are just so well written, and well illustrated Disney books. It's a little oversized and they spared no expense in printing really lush art work that's unique and matches the original films very closely. So the Aladdin art really looks like Aladdin-the film, and the Sleeping Beauty art really looks like Sleeping Beauty-the film.

Also....I have to mention that the Beauty and the Beast story is very unique compared to most princess books as it isn't the old "Beast did something bad, and Belle is upset about it" story line. It's just a nice friendship story that's very sweet. Actually all of the stories were very 'fresh' feeling, in character, and not about that one typical thing the characters always do, not the one joke that's always over played. It's ~actual~ new material any Disney fan will enjoy.

Overall I thick this book would be great for anyone...adult or child fan alike. For the price you pay, you couldn't hope for better writing, printing, or artwork.

Definitely a really really really great find.

Although this book is aimed toward the younger readers, it is the original poem of the Nightmare Before Christmas, so no matter if you are a Burton fan or study literature, this is an essential item to add to that collectio

Hmm, where do I begin... I LOVE JACK SKELLINGTON first off, and this book is SOO COOL! And yes, you can probably tell I'm a teenage girl so far... but yeah, I read this book when I was really little (same with watching the movie) and at first it scared the crap outta me (hey, I was little). But when I got older, I started to realize that this thing kicked @$$. It made me laugh, made me smile, made me cry a little, everything! Best holiday book ever! It's not really a little kid book, but it's not too scary either. The scariest part about it are the drawings, just cuz they're so abnormal. Also... if you haven't seen the movie, make sure you do. But all in all, this is probably my favorite book. GOOD JOB TIM!

I bought a copy of this book a couple years back, only to find my young nephew (only 5 back then) reaching to look at it often when he visited. I've now decided to buy him his own copy of this book, while it's still in print, because I see this movie's "legend" continuing to grow as an annual Halloween classic. Such is the unique and wonderful world of Tim Burton; his style often does not catch on immediately, but it slowly finds its way beyond "cult" viewing and into the hearts and minds of mainstream audiences. This book features a generous offering of pre-production designs (including many of Burton's own drawings) and behind-the-scenes photos, which are fun to look at again and again. A beautifully illustrated book, and fun to own

A director named Burton with the first name of Tim
Wrote this tale of a skeleton, tall and slim.

Jack Skeleton is the name of this "hero"
He comes with a ghost dog known as Zero.

As the title implies two holidays meet
Do we say "Merry Christmas" or "trick or treat?"

Jack wants to spread Christmas and help Santa out
But he's a little misguided when he takes the toy route.

The kids are a bit surprised by Jack as S. Claus
Some of his Christmas traditions would make anyone pause.

Before you read this give the movie a look
The film helps the reader make sense of the book.

Illustrated with drawings instead of claymation
This book still creates quite a sensation!

I'd like to know more about Nightmare Before Christmas.

I have just started reading the Disney Girls and enjoy them very much.In the story,Jasmine has 4 best friends but no best best friend.I thought it was funny,and very well-written.

I enjoyed reading this book very much. The story is very interesting and I can put it down! The most inspiring part is that Jasmine wanted to find out if Isabelle was a Disney Girl as I was curious and I wished Jasmine could had a best best friend. I am very glad the other Disney Girls accepted Isabelle and Jamine's dream had came true! What a wounderful ending! I would recommend this book to my friends and relatives!

Why didn't I find out about these books before? Being an ALADDIN fan, I really enjoyed this one. Jasmine and four other girls share characteristics like those of the Disney princesses, but Jasmine is the odd-girl-out with no best-best friend, and when a new girl, Isabelle, arrives, Jasmine starts to become hopeful...maybe she's even a Disney Girl! Great way to start a series!

I picked his book out in Disney World, because it looked good. This is one of the best series I have ever read. The book is about a girl named Jasmine and she is supposed to be like Princess Jasmine. The other Princess's are Belle, Ariel,Snow White, Cinderella, and Pocahantous. My faverite princess is Belle.

I love the Disney Girls! I decided to read this book on a trip mostly because it was In at the library (when I read a series, I like to read them in order) and because I couldn't find anything else. I am SO GLAD that I couldn't, because these books are SO COOL!!!

I'm a member of a lot of Disney message boards, but wanted something in print that I could take along with me to the parks. This book is perfect. I love that it is three ring bound and so I can add pages to it. They show you with color-coding anythign that has been updated for 2008. I love the organzation pockets in the back.

Very helpful for information and organizing trip to WDW. Information is well presented and current.The ability to plan out day & event iteneraries is great!I would recommend this for anyone planning a vacation to WDW.

Ok, for someone who has been to Disney over 15 times,i know ALOT about the experience. But with Disney constantly changing and adding things, this is a great tool both for new and experienced vacationers!! Aside from the updates and EVERYTHING you need to know about all the restarunts, hotels and parks, there are many many tools for the maticulous planners!!! Its your one stop travel guide/schedule/info desk!If you are going to venture into the wonderful world of Disney.........you have to get this!!!!!

I buy one of these every year for our Disney trips. Although we are Disney Vacation Club members and do not NEED all the information packed into this, it is a great keepsake for us. Every year I fill it out with all our plans and trip information. I save ticket stubs and such in it. From year to year I look back at past trips to help plan our upcoming trip. The thing I like best is there are maps of all the parks and from time to time things change or attractions open or close in the parks, and my family will have Passporters to look back on in years to come.
For people planning their first trip to Disneyworld this Passporter is loaded with helpful information. The Passporter and the latest copy of "Disneyworld With Kids" is all you need to plan a successful trip.
I did buy the regular version, not the "leather" edition last year and the information was all there, but the binder was harder to add things into than the 3-ring binder styling of the leather edition, so this year I did the leather version again. Mind you, the leather version is pricier and if you're not hanging on to it "forever" like we are, the regular edition is a great value and chuck full of all the same helpful information.

I loved this handy leather luxurious guide because it is choke full of information at my finger tips and an organizer in one. The leather three ring made it easy to keep my family organized before, during, and after our vacation. I am a scrapbooker (creator of family and friend photo albums) and honestly I don't always remember to write everything down while on vacation. Each day has its own envelope that you can put all types of items inside and there are spots all over the envelope to fill in what you did all day long. From where you went and did; to where you ate. I give this guide my two thumbs up for ease and convenience.

This book is absolutely delightful! Nate Wragg is truly an illustrator to "collect." Although children would enjoy the book as well, I'm giving it to a gourmet friend.

Gorgeous illustrations, wonderful vocabulary, great rhymes, counting, colors, cooking terms, French words--this is a fantastically creative book. Yes, I loved the movie, too, but this would stand alone even if the movie didn't exist. I used to live in Paris, and the illustrations remind me of something you'd find in a children's book in France. This is a great book, and I am so glad I bought it for my daughter. Seeing her eyes light up when you turn to the flambé page? Priceless!

A must for any ratatouille fan, francophile kid, future chef--anyone!

This is a picture book based on the movie Ratatouille. It is much better than most kids' movie books and would be enjoyable without the Ratatouille connection. Rats in the kitchen cook and cook using French cooking techniques and French food. It is quite well written in a fun rhyme with beautiful illustrations. I enjoy it and I think my students will too. The colors are bright and the illustrations are joyful as we learn how to cook French food, made more familiar by the recent cinematic hit.

We checked this book out from the Library after being introduced to it during storytime. My 2 1/2 year old loves it. He askes me to read it at least twice a day. It teaches counting forward to 8 and backward from 8-1.. It also teaches some simple French cooking turns, it rhymes, it has a glossery at the end that explains the cooking terms (which my son also likes to hear). It is just a great book, my 9 month old daughter likes to listen too it as well. As with any book, I recommend you try and find it from your local library and read to your children and see if they like it, if they do it would make a great birthday, rainy day or just special day award.

This was a gift for my nephew who happens to like cooking a lot, he loved it, me too, even his parents, I was triying to give a book that didn't needed help from adults for every step, otherwise, their mom would have gone crazy, and this is great, has tasty, fun and simple recipes, plus it has these cute amazing characters in every page; it also has pictures acompanying all the recipes. It's a wonderful choice, I really recomend it.

Catch up on your knowledge, or review what you know. Fun series of all that's Disney.

This is a great book about Disney Company. It goes chronologically from 1901 to 1999 and beyond. Every event in the company's history is put in the book, but without much detail.
Since he maintains Disney Archives, Dave Smith could have done a litle better, like he did with Disney's Encyclopedia.

This book was excellent! It had terrific pictures and it told from 1901 when Walt was born until 2001. It is a great keepsake. I purchased mine at Walt Disney World during the 100 Years of Magic celebration.

I really enjoyed this book. It is packed with lots of great photographs and artwork from Walt Disney and the Disney Company. It also has a really nice overview of the life of Walt Disney and the work of the Disney Company in text.

I appreciated the organization of the book. The book is arranged chronologically, which helped me to understand the flow of events better. This book has a very upbeat, positive tone and paints a very bright and exciting future for the Disney Company.

This book does not contain nearly as much information about Walt Disney as some of the biographies that I have read, but I don't think that was the goal of this book. This book does a very nice job of chronicling the art and the work of this great American icon and then continues the chronology with the work of the Disney Company in the post Walt era.

This book starts with very early Disney and takes the reader all the way through to Fantasia 2000. This is an excellent coffee table book. I highly recommended it to anyone that loves Walt, his work and the continuing work of the Disney Company.

This 213 page book is just full of an endless supply of full color photos of everything Disney for the past 100 years. You'll learn all about Walt's early life and how his ideas created worldwide Disney worlds. Each chapter covers a decade from 1901 to 2001 !! Many of these pictures are archival and never made available before. The book provides many memories for "children" of all ages. It's a keeper. Enjoy !

Once upon a time, before Ariel, Jasmine, and Belle, three Princesses ruled Supreme in the Disney Kingdom:
Snow White, Cinderella, and Aurora/Briar Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty). This original, classic Princess Trio is celebrated in a delightful and entertaining Books and CD Box set.

The packaging may be pink (meaning the item is pidgeonholed as a product for "young girls") and the story presentation is brief (again pidgeonholing: as an item for "young readers") but this is actually a treat for fans of "CLASSIC DISNEY"-- fans of all ages. I don't have little girls/children. I purchased this simply because I love "CLASSIC DISNEY"-- and the price is extremely affordable.

I found the box the books and CD came in to be the perfect way to store and care for the books. The box easily fits on to a shelf of my entertainment center; so it should also fit easily on to any bookshelf. The books are 24 page paperbacks, but quite sturdy and nicely illustrated; although the cover illustration for the "SNOW WHITE" book makes Snow White and her Prince look like dorks!!

The three stories are all on one CD. The CD almost fell out of the box when I opened it. I put the CD in a jewel case, and downloaded it into my computer as well to make for easier use.

The stories are brief, (not quite the same as the larger and longer cherished Book and LP Record Series from my own childhood; but I'm still completely enchanted) so certain elements of the Disney plots (the mice making a dress for Cinderella, The Seven Dwarfs Dance Party with Snow White, and the good fairies making a birthday cake for Aurora and cleaning the cottage with magic wands) are eliminated. Still, I was amazed at how well the spirit and the essence of these Disney films is captured on a brief 36 minute CD. True fans will notice happily familiar musical underscoring over the narration of "CINDERELLA" and "SLEEPING BEAUTY." No songs from "SNOW WHITE" are included, but this story features a particularly vigorous alternate musical
underscoring, and is the best of the CD adaptations. However, "SLEEPING BEAUTY" is my favorite Disney fairy tale.

The narration is quite lively and the voice actors for the characters are superb; particularly for "SNOW WHITE." The voice actors are not the same as those in the actual films, but sound so similar that they will certainly evoke plesant memories.

Ilene Woods is heard singing "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" from the film Soundtrack of "CINDERELLA", and beautiful soprano Mary Costa sings "Once Upon A Dream" and "I Wonder" from the "SLEEPING BEAUTY" Soundtrack.

They are just the right length stories for the princess fan. My daughter listened and followed along almost every day for a month. Hit the spot for her.

My grandaughter is 3 and loves to read along with the cd. Excellent books. True Disney stories.

My 4 year old daughter loves these books & CD. She can listen to them by herself and they even have the characters voices and some have original songs, too. I highly recommend this item!

We purchased this read-along set for our three-year-old daughter, and she absolutely loves it. These are probably her favorite stories that we've purchased for her so far.

The collection itself is quite nice - Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty in three separate books and one CD. Currently, only Cinderella is available for individual purchase. The box it came in was a piece of cardboard junk that was oversized and took up more space than it should have. We tossed it and are keeping the books in the same pile as the rest of her read-alongs and the CD in a jewel case of its own.

While it is nice to cut down on the number of discs to keep track of, the 3-in-1 set up is a little hard, because unless I program my daughter's CD player to just play one story, it will play all three, one right after another. Usually, this isn't a big deal - it gives me about 36 minutes of uninterrupted peace - but if we even suggest that she only listen to one of the three, she has an absolute fit. To her, the three stories HAVE to be listened to consecutively.

So, we like the collection, the packaging was pathetic, and the single-disc can create a few problems, but overall it was a very good buy. I would like to see the individual stories offered separately, though, so we could have some choices in what we decide to purchase.