This funny, knowing story about friendships and feelings is done in true Pooh style. Eeyore is looking particularly glum, and when Pooh learns that it's Eeyore's birthday, and everyone seems to have forgotten, he gathers all the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood for a celebration. Full color.
Pooh knows something grand and wonderful is going to happen today, but he can't remember what it is. When he can't find any of his animal friends at home, he hurries to Christopher Robin's house, where he finds a special surprise.
With a rumbly in his tumbly, but not even a smidgen of honey, Winnie the Pooh is in real trouble. What’s a Hungry Bear to do? Find out in this delightful touch and feel book, full of the colors and textures found in the Hundred-Acre Wood.
Pooh and Piglet battle the elements, but a bright and sunny ending is in store for all. On a very windy, blustery day, Pooh comes to the rescue when Piglet is swept off his feet and into the sky, with Pooh hanging desperately onto a thread from his scarf.
Walt Disney, best known as a filmmaker, had perhaps a greater skill as a reader. While many would have regarded Felix Salten's Bambi and Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as too somber for family-oriented films, he saw their possibilities. He appealed to his audience by selecting but then transforming familiar stories. Many of the tales he chose to adapt to film became some of the most read books in America. Although much published research has addressed his adaptation process--often criticizing his films for being too saccharine or not true to their literary sources--little has been written on him as a reader: what he read, what he liked, his reading experiences and the books that influenced him. This collection of 15 fresh essays and one classic addresses Disney as a reader and shows how his responses to literature fueled his success. Essays discuss the books he read, the ones he adapted to film and the ways in which he demonstrated his narrative ability. Exploring his literary connections to films, nature documentaries, theme park creations and overall creative vision, the contributors provide insight into Walt Disney's relationships with authors, his animation staff and his audience.
For the first time, the stories from all the classic Disney movies featuring Winnie the Pooh have been collected together in a colorful treasury. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger and all the other lovable characters from the Disney films star in such tales as "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree" and "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day."
A tribute to the wonder of Pooh, from his origins and literary success to his brilliantly animated career and popularity in a wide variety of forms. This is his story - but, moreover, it is his art. More than 200 illustrations cover his transformation - and that of his friends - from stuffed toys, to Shepard's original drawings to animated characters. Also includes early concept art, storyboards, rough animation, background art, and final cels. An exquisite collection of the old and the new. Illustrated in full-colour thoughout.
Going beyond the box-office hits of Disney and Dreamworks, this guide to every animated movie ever released in the United States covers more than 300 films over the course of nearly 80 years of film history. Well-known films such as Finding Nemo and Shrek are profiled and hundreds of other films, many of them rarely discussed, are analyzed, compared, and catalogued. The origin of the genre and what it takes to make a great animated feature are discussed, and the influence of Japanese animation, computer graphics, and stop-motion puppet techniques are brought into perspective. Every film analysis includes reviews, four-star ratings, background information, plot synopses, accurate running times, consumer tips, and MPAA ratings. Brief guides to made-for-TV movies, direct-to-video releases, foreign films that were never theatrically released in the U.S., and live-action films with significant animation round out the volume.