Tag Archives: Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: The Magic of Disney Storybook Collection

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Dis-LEE

ISBN: 0-7868-3523-0 Type: Hardcover Size: 9″ x 9″ Pages: 320 Publisher: Disney Press Date: 2004 This is quite a nice collection of original stories featuring many of our favorite Disney characters along with a few lesser known or forgotten ones. … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW: Disney’s Adventure Guide to Florida

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Dis-LEE

A FODOR’s Travel Book Size: 7″ x 10″ Type: Soft Cover Pages: 64 ISBN: 0-679-00575-7 Distributed by: David McKay Company, Inc. Date: 1980 Fodor’s Travel is the world’s largest publisher of English language travel and tourism information and the first … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW: This Was Radio

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Dis-LEE

Isn’t media wonderful? Here I am writing a post for the Internet that I will share on social media about a hardcover book which describes the early days of radio. If I could find a way to throw television in … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW: Funny! (The Pixar Story Room)

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Dis-LEE

Twenty-five Years of Laughter from the Pixar Story Room Forward by John Lasseter / Intro by Jason Katz Right out of the gate I will say this book was a disappointment. ‘Not Very Funny!’ would probably have been a more … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW: The Art of the Disney Golden Books

Posted on July 24, 2016 by Dis-LEE

Publisher: Disney Editions Type: Hardcover Pages: 160 ISBN: 978-1-4231-6380-0 Price: $35.00 US & CAN This is a great book for anyone who loves the Little Golden Books. I think we all have memories from our childhood of one title or … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW: Stan Lee’s Marvelous Memoir

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Dis-LEE

AMAZING     FANTASTIC     INCREDIBLE A Marvelous Memoir For those unfamiliar with Stan Lee, all three of you, this is called a ‘marvelous memoir’ because Stan the Man brought a comic book company named Marvel to fame and prominence while doing quite … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW: The Ultimate Guide to an Affordable Disney World Vacation

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Dis-LEE

– This publication has been provided by the Author for review – by Kevin Barry Publisher: Frugal Enterprises, LLC ISBN: 978-0-9974363-1-0 Pages: 122 Type: Soft Cover Size: 6″ x 9″ Synopsis: This book was written to help cut the costs … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW: The Making of King Kong

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Dis-LEE

I love reading anything about the early days of film making, especially the earliest examples of animation, whether they be hand-drawn or stop-motion as in the case of King Kong. So when I came across this old first edition published … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW: The Grasshopper and the Ants

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Dis-LEE

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: Hardcover Disney Books by Whitman

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Dis-LEE

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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