13 Books About Walt Disney and the Disney Parks

There are a number of espresso desk books put out by The Walt Disney Company itself, however this one appears to be like stunning. Published in honor of the firm’s 100^th anniversary in 2023, it showcases the historical past of the Disney firm and consists of idea artwork and pictures from Disney parks round the world. It was written as a companion to the currently-touring Disney100 exhibition.

This e-book covers the early years of Walt Disney Imagineering and accommodates the tales and particulars that had been reduce for time in the Disney+ documentary by the identical title. Readers will uncover the firsthand tales of the individuals who originated the function of Imagineer as they had been constructing a few of the best-known Disney sights. There can be a piece masking future initiatives for many who want to look forward.  

Carl Hiaasen states that Disney is “so good at being good that it manifests an evil.” This is a view of the Disney machine from at Floridian who has witnessed firsthand the success of Disney World and the modifications it has delivered to Central Florida. It is necessary to keep in mind that Disney is, after all, an organization that may at all times act in its personal finest curiosity and has a vested curiosity in controlling its personal press.

This educational textual content was an prompt buy for me. Disney’s success is each an American story and a car for exporting Americanness overseas. How a lot does nostalgia issue into the love for Disney and its parks? The e-book additionally explores how Disney has modified alongside with the American individuals.

Lots has been written about “Disney’s Nine Old Men,” the animators who created a few of Disney’s most well-known movies. The e-book pulls again the curtain on the feminine artists who introduced drawings to life. Disney established the first animation coaching college for girls and, in that method, drew girls into all disciplines of animation manufacturing. 

This is a group of tales from twelve girls who labored in Imagineering for many years. They focus on the issues acquainted to girls in a male-dominated office and what it was prefer to work for Disney in a interval of speedy growth. This e-book is an enchanting learn for anybody who has ever considered working for Disney.

A biography of Walt Disney that takes the reader from his Midwestern beginnings to his place at the middle of American tradition, this can be a fairly in-depth learn. Interviews for the e-book started two years after Disney’s loss of life and present the layers of an advanced determine. This e-book has been incessantly referenced as a extra balanced portrayal of Disney the man versus the figurehead created by, properly, Disney. 

The story of Walt Disney is inextricable from the story of his brother, Roy. From dealing with the funds of the nascent Disney firm to constructing Walt Disney World after his brother’s loss of life, the Disney story could be very completely different with out Roy Disney. Read this one to study the Disney brother whose statue is additionally in the Magic Kingdom. 

Mary Blair was one in every of Disney’s best-known designers. You may know her art work from It’s A Small World. This artwork e-book chronicles the work of an American artist who labored in décor, theme parks, promoting, print and extra. 

This is one other a espresso desk e-book, nevertheless it’s about EPCOT, which is my favourite Disney park. EPCOT, which was initially supposed as a group for individuals to reside in, has lived many lives over in its 40 years. This e-book accommodates the unique idea artwork for reveals that ended up being very completely different on EPCOT’s opening day.

This kids’s e-book takes the littlest readers on a trip via Disney’s Haunted Mansion. The textual content of the e-book accommodates precise quotes from the trip’s script and could be nice for getting ready a nervous little one for his or her first go to to the mansion (talking as somebody who was as soon as that nervous little one). The tiny Disney fan in my life is especially obsessive about this e-book, however related Little Golden Books are additionally accessible for Space Mountain, Jungle Cruise and It’s A Small World. 

In the Sixties, Disney was seeking to construct a ski resort in Mineral King, California. This venture got here into being proper at the rise of the environmental motion and the battle made all of it the solution to the Supreme Court. This is an enchanting depiction of how a bunch of activists fought the Mouse — and received. 

This unapproved-by-Disney take a look at one in every of its most well-known sights options the central query about whether or not the trip was supposed to be scary or humorous. Bahm was capable of interview a number of of the Imagineers who labored on the venture. This is the place you’ll be able to learn the tales behind a few of the mansion’s most seen “residents” and the behind-the-scenes tales of the individuals who get to be there when the lights are on.