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Language
English
Description
"The Art of Walt Disney tells the story of Walt Disney and the company he built based on the creations of his extraordinary imagination, from Mickey Mouse to feature films to theme parks and Broadway. Based on numerous interviews with Disney staff members past and present, the text is profusely illustrated with more than eight hundred illustrations ranging from concept and background art to film stills - from Mickey's 1928 debut in Steamboat Willie...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walt Disney forever changed the world when he made his animation and entertainment dreams come true. For millions of people, "Disney" and "magic" are inextricably connected. But what was Walt like as a child? He fed his imagination by going to parades and plays, riding pigs around the farmyard, painting and drawing ... but he also worked hard to help support his parents and siblings. Filled with creative energy, this story will inspire readers to...
Author
Series
Blast to the past volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's Monday again, and for Abigail, jacob, Zack, and Bo, that means it's time-travel day! This week the kids can't believe their luck: they're going to meet Walt !
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her difficult...
5) Disney
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the Walt Disney Company. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
379 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Biography of Walt Disney, the animator who created Mickey Mouse, and whose career included short and feature length animation, motion pictures, television, and amusement parks.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles the animator, filmmaker, and entertainer, detailing his early life, his beginnings in animated films, the creation of the Disney studios, and the opening of the Disneyland theme park.
Author
Language
English
Description
Seven years in the making and meticulously researched, Gabler is the first writer to be given complete access to the Disney archives, this is the full story of a man whose work left an ineradicable brand on our culture but whose life has largely been enshrouded in myth. Gabler shows us the young Walt Disney breaking free of a heartland childhood of discipline and deprivation and making his way to Hollywood. We see the visionary, whose desire for escape...
Author
Publisher
Kingswell
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes how his autistic son, Owen, learned to cope with his handicap from a young age by memorizing the dialogue of Disney movies and having his family play the roles of the animated characters.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 322 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia. But as America prepared for World War II, labor unions spread across...
13) I am Walt Disney
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Walt Disney with a focus on his work making dreams come true for himself and for generations of children"--
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three Years in Wonderland is the fascinating history of the 'happiest place on earth.' Using information from over one hundred unpublished interviews, Todd James Pierce lays down the story of Disneyland's development. The success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, but there was a third man instrumental in the development of the park: a fast-talking Texan, C.V. Wood. In the early 1950s, the Disney brothers hired Wood and his...
18) Walt Disney
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Disneyland, Disney World, and all things Disney are sure to enjoy learning all about the fascinating founder, Walt Disney. This new biographic reader reveals the interesting, enchanting life of one of the world's most beloved storytellers and entrepreneurs. Level 3 text provides accessible yet wide-ranging information for fluent readers"--