Toy Story: The Essential Guide (Dk Essential Guides) [Hardcover]

Glenn Dakin (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Dk Essential Guides

Since 1995, Toy Story has brought joy, wonder, and laughter to people around the world. In 2010, Toy Story 3 will make its theatrical debut and DK publishing is revamping its beautifully illustrated and very successful Toy Story book program in order to prime fans everywhere.



Toy Story: The Essential Guide gets a makeover, with all new images from the first two movies. Woody, Buzz, and the gang are featured in stills, along with incredible animation info, behind-the-scenes stories, and gorgeous imagery that kids will love.



(c) 2008 Disney/PIXAR

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Welcome to the world of Toy Story. As soon as the doors close behind any departing humans, the toys come out to play! Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, Hamm the pig, Mr. Potato Head, and all the others lead active--sometimes overly active--lives when humans aren't looking. Whether squabbling over turf, fending off dangerous new arrivals, or discovering that they are "just" toys, this incredible, somewhat motley crew will delight one and all. Fans of the Disney movie will devour this essential guide, which provides an inside look at the whole Toy Story gang. Discover what the innards of Woody's pull-string voice box look like. Peer inside the Pizza Planet rocket with a detailed cross section of this deep-dish pepperoni proton-powered flying machine. Learn about Woody's past as hero of the "high-ridin'est, rootin'-tootin'est" 1950s television show of all time. Packed with photos and illustrations of the characters and settings, the guide clues readers in to some hilarious and fascinating background information about this popular and surprisingly touching film. A must for any Toy Story buff! (Ages 6 to 12) --Emilie Coulter --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 72 pages
• Publisher: DK Publishing (December 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756645565
• ISBN-13: 978-0756645564
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,534,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Toytastic!, December 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Toy Story: The Essential Guide (Toy Story 2) (Hardcover)

This book is superbly designed with wonderful images of the characters and film. The neighborhood map is awesome. So is pizza planet rocket.

The text is witty and borders on the poetic.

A must for fans of Woody, Buzz, and all their friends!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super job, January 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Toy Story: The Essential Guide (Toy Story 2) (Hardcover)

They did a great job of incorporating background from both films in this book. You get mini bios of all the main characters plus cut-aways and maps of the world of Toy Story. My only complaint is that in their bio of Rexx, they give away the ending of "Toy Story 2".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An essential style guide., February 3, 2002

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This review is from: Toy Story: The Essential Guide (Toy Story 2) (Hardcover)

Having got the special three DVD set of Toy Story (the extras on the third DVD are stunning) I wanted a book that was a reference guide to the characters from both movies. This is just the book I was looking for.

Each spread has a character or place, nicely designed with large cutouts and smaller pictures (some a bit dark though) and captions. The pages on the thirteen episodes of Woody's Roundup and Bullseye, Jessie and Prospector are fascinating because they show merchandising items from the 1957 TV show, a cereal box, card game, comics, alarm clock, LP record, lunch box and themos etc are all designed with pictures and typography from the fifties. The attention to detail is one reason why I loved the movies and this book lets you enjoy the show without watching it on TV.

Kids and their parents will both enjoy this book.