DisneyBookBeat returns with new reviews, interviews, and more Disney book goodness in early 2013. See you then!
The Flipping French
by - July 21, 2012 at 1:35 pm
What’s the sound of one hand flipping?
Silence, if that hand is flipping through a book (the latest volume in Disney’s Animation Archive series) on YouTube. Come watch with me that most minimalist of Disney video book reviews: one book, one hand, no sound. And by the way: it helps if you’re French. Read On…
Review: Epcot Souvenir Book
by - July 20, 2012 at 4:20 pm
The lengths we go for a Disney bargain.
Last April, I picked up two official “souvenir books” in Disney World for about half price. These books were part of a set: one per park. I’m a completist, and so naturally I wanted the entire set. This is my adventure in completism (with a book review to boot). Read On…
The World According to Jack
by - July 19, 2012 at 6:31 pm
So where’s the book?
That’s the question I’d like to ask a handful of Disney writers (not authors, at least not yet) who have written reams of superb Disney stuff but whose work you won’t find on Amazon or anywhere else except their… blog. Like, for example, Jack Spence of AllEars. Read On…
Tom Snyder Interviews Ward Kimball
by - July 18, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Ask me again and I’ll kill you.
That isn’t far off from the sentiment shared by many well-known Disney Cast Members who are interviewed in the Disney fan media over and over again, and who answer the same questions over and over again. Want to do it right? Let Tom Snyder be your guide. Read On…
Review: Mousechawitz
by - July 17, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Disney World… a Nazi death camp?
Mousechawitz author Angela Lovell recounts her summer of “concentrated fun” working at Splash Mountain in Disney World. You’ll hear about poisonous snakes, a dead fat person stuck in a log, and why Cast Members love it when you lose your child. Read On…
Disney’s “Book an Author”
by - July 16, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Disney really does think of everything. I’m not referring to the films or the theme parks. I’m referring to an outlier: the teacher or the librarian or the home school coördinator who wishes to spice up their students’ curriculum with Disney magic in the form of a Disney author.
The available authors have written children’s books for Disney’s Hyperion imprint. If you think Read On…
Sunday Symphony: Trivia, Trips, and God
by - July 15, 2012 at 12:04 pm
I’m not alone.
Other sites run Disney book reviews, too. They don’t specialize in them, like we do here, but every so often, they toss one up.
In this edition of the Sunday Symphony, we’ll once again see what’s been tossed up, and whether Read On…
