Russell Schroeder

One of those books that seems to be written by someone who assumes kids are stupid and will just accept anything you tell them.

So Tigger has a toy airplane. But it really flies. And he can direct how it flies without any sort of mechanism or remote control. And it's large enough to carry a couple of small friends. And it can land and take off on a piece of land smaller in diameter than its own wingspan.

So, yeah, Tigger actually owns a MAGIC airplane.

And it becomes necessary to use all its show more magic when one friend gets in a little spot of trouble. And then it will never be seen again in the Hundred-Acre Wood. show less

This is an OK Book to teach one's kids about Stranger Danger. This book can not be read by the very young. It needs to be read to them as the print is small. The Pictures do coincide with the story.

The story is about the Road Runner and his 3 children. They spend their day running around and meeting new friends like the Turtles and the Mountain Lion Cubs. All the while Wiley Coyote is hot on their trail. Papa Road Runner warns his kids about how tricky the Coyote is. Finally at one point in show more the story Wiley Coyote lures the little Road Runner's to him with a fake horn. Fortunately, the Lioness (mother of the Lion Cubs) Intersects the Coyote and scares him off. The little Road Runner's learn how tricky the Coyote can be. show less

In many ways Walt Disney was a typical boy at the beginning of the twentieth century, Walt worked many jobs until finding his true passion with animation. "Walt started in the animation business, people were making cartoons in which character leaped from the drawing board into the real world"(Schroeder 15). Walt Disney's first screen appearance was in 1928, in Steamboat Willie.After Steamboat Willie, Walt Disney went onto bigger animations and started making movies. Then he went onto bigger show more and better things, like Disneyland and Walt Disney World. I have always loved anything having to do with Walt Disney. I found the pictures and the background information about Walt Disney very interesting! "Walt Disney: His life in Pictures" is in chronological order. Each section of the book is focused on a decade of his life. The book has more pictures than words, because Walt Disney thought life was spoken through pictures. I noticed that throughout the book, most of his animations and movies were about his life experiences. show less

This is a book I had had sitting on my shelf for over 2 decades. It had been a gift I had received in the late '90s and I had never more than flipped through the pages. While the contents weren't greatly compelling, it was interesting to read through a simplified version of an example of the making of an animated movie. This example being, of course, Disney's Mulan.