Category Archives: Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: Disney’s Wonderful World of Reading

This series of books consisted of new stories and adventures and special adaptions of the Disney classics. Many favorite characters were used to assist youngsters in exploring the wonderful world of reading (appropriate, eh?) By using simple vocabulary and exciting … Continue reading

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BOOK REVIEW: Life – Special Magazine on Walt Disney

I saw many of my friends on social media publishing pictures of the cover of this magazine, but wasn’t really planning on picking it up myself. I have so many hard-cover books on Walt Disney, it’s hard to find any … Continue reading

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BOOK REVIEW: Walt Disney’s Mother Goose

Once again a flea market has offered up another vintage Disney book for the blog: 9 1/2″ x 12 1/2 ” with 30 pages Mother Goose nursery rhymes have been told and retold too many times to count, but this … Continue reading

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BOOK REVIEW: The Grasshopper and the Ants

This is one of my favorite Silly Symphonies (1934) and I have a few items of memorabilia featuring it in my collection. It’s a classic tale of industriousness versus laziness with the lead character, the Grasshopper, learning a sobering lesson… … Continue reading

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BOOK REVIEW: Donald and the Big Cheese

There’s a title for ya! This book is part of Disney’s Small World Library series which featured original stories based on the geography and customs of twenty-eight different countries. You can view the covers and read reviews for each book … Continue reading

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BOOK REVIEW: The Walt Disney Song Book

Perhaps even more than the story or the characters it’s the music we remember the most from our favorite Disney movies. From the iconic Some Day My Prince Will Come from Snow White to fun tunes like Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah from Song … Continue reading

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Monday Topics: Disney Tutorial

W E E K     T W O DISNEY TUTORIAL Our friends over at Love Our Crazy Life have asked some of their blogging friends (like me) to participate in a Blogging Challenge. So for four weeks in April, … Continue reading

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BOOK REVIEW: Hardcover Disney Books by Whitman

Whitman Publishing was a subsidiary of Western Publishing that produced a popular line of children’s books the early 1900s to the mid-1970s. Whitman published a variety of genres including westerns, mysteries, science fiction, and adventure stories. Eventually they also published … Continue reading

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Sleeping Beauty Read-Along Book and Record

In 1955 Walt Disney named the Disneyland castle after a new Princess who wasn’t to bow on the world stage for another two years. He thought it would make for good cross-promotion. Unfortunately, the film didn’t do as well with … Continue reading

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BOOK REVIEW: Alice in Wonderland – Big Golden Book

This over-sized wonder is a nice retelling of Lewis Carroll’s famous story of a little girl who falls into a rabbit hole and has some… pretty strange adventures. 9 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ with 22 pages We’ve all heard of … Continue reading

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