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Walt Disney: Young Movie Maker (Childhood of Famous Americans)

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This book was enjoyable. Marie Hammontree described how a person can be a big success while being a little poor. It shows the ups and downs of Disney's life. She describes what it took to get to the top of his career. This book tells who he was inspired by and how they helped him. She told me his problems in his life and how they were solved. It gave me the puzzle pieces to his life so I could better understand it. All in all I think it was a really informative book.

There are several books that put the biography of Walt Disney in a format meant for children, and this is the best of them. The majority of the book tells what Walt's life as a child was like. The publisher has produced a whole series of bio type books for young people, and has a good formula. They try to put the child in touch not only with the life deeds of the man, but his personality, and how he got his start. In understanding a great person from history, it is tremendously useful to know not just what he did, but why he did it. Who and what influenced this person. What was he like as a kid himself? Without these it is hard for a kid to connect to the historical figure, and this book accomplishes it very well. I highly reccommend! For a good adult bio, check the Bob Thomas book, or the Amy Boothe book.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I thought that Walter was a very intelegent young person. I thought Marie Hammontree did an excelent job at making a usual boring biography into an intresting tale.I wish that there where many more pages in the book so I could read more and more about Walt Disney. I thought that Marie made him sound like a very lively young child. I thought that Walt was a very big risk taker. I would have hoped that the book would have had more information and details though. all in all I thought that this was a great book.

This was an easy read for my son and he hates to read. The story was very engaging and interesting to him. He had to read a biography for middle school and this was the perfect read.

My daughter and I read this book and we liked it very much. We learned many interesting things about Walt Disney.

With my 8 year old 2nd grade daughter, I recently read this 1969 version of the Walt Disney biography aimed at a young elementary audience. She was totally taken in by the approach - focus on childhood. It does an excellent job of incorporating well known facts about Disney's rural & urban upbringing in a close family where there was sometimes plenty & sometimes not. It does a good job of documenting seeds in Disney's young life that grew into critical parts of his later success. Disney's strong work ethic & invincible spirit are clear. It shows Disney's constantly thinking a step ahead of what was already out there, & how his drive & creativity paid off in the end. Though the book was published after Disney's 1966 death, it barely addressed his personal life & career following the 1955 opening of DisneyLand. After carefully chronicling events up to that point, it glosses over the rest & does not even mention his children, his death, DisneyWorld, Epcot, or CalArts. Now, 40 years after his death, his enduring family entertainment is even more significant. I saw in a listing of books available on Amazon that there is apparently a more recent version, dated 1997. Hopefully this provides the additional meat needed. For anyone wanting more detail on Disney, 2 excellent sources include walt disney family museum website & Disney online archives.

Walt disney had an exciting childhood not to mention adult career. My children loved reading this book and having it read to them prior to visiting Disney World.

We bought this book for my 3rd grader. He was planing on using it as an autobiography. The book was told in a story format and was only about Walt Disney's childhood. I sent the book in to school for the teachers approval and she agreed with my assesment and we had to choose another book. From the description, we understood it differently.