04 Dec Walt Disney Day
While there are many famous holidays at this time of year, you may not be aware of Walt Disney Day. Walt Disney Day is celebrated each year on the first Monday in December in remembrance of Disney’s founder, Walter Elias Disney, who was born on December 5, 1901. Celebrate this year on December 4 by learning more about that famous man! Click on a title to place a hold on a physical copy through the Evergreen catalog.
As Dreamers Do: The Amazing Life of Walt Disney
This 2014 biographical drama film tells the story of the man behind the mouse. Disney began to develop skills as an animator early in life, but he endured many hardships to become the icon he is today.
Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Inventions of the Amusement Park That Changed the World, Richard Snow
In Disney’s Land, Richard Snow presents the entire story of the conception and creation of Disneyland, a wild ride from vision to realization and an epic of innovation and error.
The Vault of Walt: Unofficial, Unauthorized, Uncensored Disney Stories Never Told, Jim Korkis
In this first volume of the Vault of Walt series, Jim Korkis utilizes over thirty years of his personal interviews with Disney animators, Imagineers, and associates, as well as obscure and long forgotten documents and many years of research, to weave timeless tales and fascinating secrets about the “lost” world of Disney.
