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Theme Parks: History, Art, Design

• Alcorn, Steve and David Green. Building a Better Mouse: The Story of the Electronic Imagineers Who Designed • Allan, Graham, Rebecca Cline, and Charlie Price. Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks: Celebrations Around the World from Fall to Winter • Baham, Jeff. The Unauthorized Story of ’s Haunted Mansion • Ballard, Donald W. Hotel 1954 – 1959: The Little Motel in the Middle of the Orange Grove • Ballard, Donald W. Disneyland Hotel: The Early Years, 1954 - 1988 • Bossert, David A. 3D Disneyland: Like You’ve Never Seen it Before • Bright, Randy. Disneyland: Inside Story • Broggie, Michael. Walt Disney’s Railroad Story: The Small-Scale Fascination That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom • Dunlop, Beth. Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture • Emerson, Chad. Project Future: The Inside Story Behind the Creation of Disney World • Fjellman, Stephen M. Vinyl Leaves: and America • Goldberg, Aaron H. Buying Disney’s World • Goldberg, Aaron H. The Wonders of Walt Disney World • Gordon, Bruce and David Mumford. Disneyland: The Nickel Tour: A Postcard Journey Through a Half Century of The Happiest Place on Earth • Gordon, Bruce and Jeff Kurtti. The Art of Disneyland • Gordon, Bruce and Jeff Kurtti. The Art of Walt Disney World • Gordon, Bruce and Tim O’Day. Disneyland: Then, Now, and Forever • Gurr, Bob. Design: Just for Fun • Handke, Danny and Vanessa Hunt. Poster Art of the Disney Parks • Hench, John and Peggy Van Pelt. Designing Disney: Imagineering and the Art of the Show • Howland, Dan. Omnibus: The Journal of Ride Theory • Imagineers, The. : A Behind the Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real • Imagineers, The. Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making MORE Magic Real • Kiste, Andrew. A Historical Tour of Walt Disney World • Koenig, David. The ‘55ers: The Pioneers Who Settled Disneyland • Koenig, David. Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World • Kurtti, Jeff. Disney Build • Kurtti, Jeff, Vanessa Hunt, and Paul Wolski. The Disney : Imagineering a Highway in the Sky • Kurtti, Jeff. Since the World Began: Walt Disney World: The First 25 Years • Kurtti, Jeff. Walt Disney’s Imagineering Legends and the Genesis of the Disney Theme Park • Marling, Karal Ann and Donna Braden. Behind the Magic: 50 Years of Disneyland • Marling, Karal Ann. Designing Disney’s Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance • Neary, Kevin, Susan Neary, and Vanessa Hunt. Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from to Shanghai • Nichols, Chris. Walt Disney’s Disneyland (TASCHEN) • Nolte, Foxx. Boundless Realm: Deep Explorations Inside Disney’s Haunted Mansion • Perjurer, Kevin. Defunctland: Guide to the • Pierce, Todd James. Three Years in Wonderland: The Disney Brothers, C.V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park • Smith, Christopher. A Magical Half-Century • Snyder, Chuck. Windows on Disney’s Main Street, U.S.A.: Stories of the Talented People Honored at the Disney Parks • Surrell, Jason. The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at Its Peak • Surrell, Jason. : From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies • Surrell, Jason. : From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies • Thie, Carlene. Disneyland … The Beginning • Wallace, Aaron. The Thinking Fan’s Guide to Walt Disney World: Epcot • Wallace, Aaron. The Thinking Fan’s Guide to Walt Disney World: Magic Kingdom

Disney Legends and Luminaries: Biographies/Career Profiles (Individual), Interviews, Memoirs

• Anderson, Paul F. Jack of All Trades : Conversations with Disney Legend • Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years • Andrews, Julie. Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years • Bossert, David A. and Alan Coats. Walt Disney’s Imagineer – The Making of Disneyland: From Toad Hall to the Haunted Mansion and Beyond • Burgess, Bobby. Ears & Bubbles: Dancing My Way from The Club to The Lawrence Welk Show • Burns-Clair, Pam and Don Peri. Walt Disney’s First Lady of Imagineering: • Canemaker, John. The Art and Flair of : An Appreciation • Canemaker, John. Magic, Color, Flair: The World of Mary Blair • Care, Ross. Disney Legend : A Life in • Couffer, Jack. My Boss, Walt: Making the Disney Wildlife Shows • Crump, Rolly and Jeff Heimbuch. It’s Kind of a Cute Story • DeFore, Ron. Growing Up in Disneyland • Disney Book Group. : Walt Disney’s Renaissance Man • Docter, and Christopher Merritt. Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks (Volumes 1 and 2) • Donaldson, John. Warp and Weft: Life Canvas of Herbert Ryman • Ghez, Didier. Walt’s People: Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him (series) • Guglielmo, Amy and Jacqueline Tourville. Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire (children’s book) • Gurr, Bob. Legendary Imagineer: Life and Times • Hovesky, Amy. Mary Blair’s Unique Flair: The Girl Who Became One of the (children’s book) • Howland, Dan. Omnibus: The Journal of Ride Theory • Iwerks, Don. Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of • Iwerks, Leslie and John Kenworthy. The Hand Behind the Mouse: An Intimate Biography of Ub Iwerks • Justice, Bill. Justice for Disney • Larson, Eric. 50 Years in the Mouse House: The Lost Memoir of One of Disney’s Nine Old Men • Lindquist, Jack. In Service to the Mouse: My Unexpected Journey to Becoming Disneyland’s First President • Merritt, Christopher. Marc Davis: His Life and Work (So Far…) • Mills, Hayley. Forever Young • Morley, Nathan. Disney’s British Gentleman: The Life and Career of • Nabbe, Tom. From Disneyland’s Tom Sawyer to Disney Legend: The Adventures of Tom Nabbe • Pierce, Todd James. The Life and Times of : Maverick of Disney Animation • Rafferty, Kevin. Magic Journey: My Fantastical Walt Disney Imagineering Career • Ryman, Herbert. A Brush with Disney: An Artist’s Journey told through the words and works of Herbert Dickens Ryman • Schneider, Ron. From Dream to Dreamfinder • Sherman, Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman. Walt’s Time: From Before to Beyond • Sklar, Marty. Dream It! Do It! My Half Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms • Sklar, Marty. One Little Spark: Mickey’s Ten Commandments and the Road to Imagineering • Sklar, Marty. Travels with Figment: On the Road in Search of Disney Dreams • Tytle, Harry. One of Walt’s Boys

Walt Disney and the

• Barrier, Michael. Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney • Bossert, David A. Remembering Roy E. Disney: Memories and Photos of a Storied Life • Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination • Ghez, Didier. Disney’s Grand Tour: Walt and Roy’s European Vacation, Summer 1935 • Ghez, Didier. Walt Disney’s Adventures in Music, History, and Nature • Korkis, Jim. Call Me Walt: Everything You Never Knew About Walt Disney • Korkis, Jim. Walt’s Words: Quotations of Walt Disney with Sources! • Kurtti, Jeff. Travels with Walt Disney: A Photographic Journey Around the World • Smith, Dave. The Quotable Walt Disney • Thomas, Bob. Building a Company: Roy O. Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire • Thomas, Bob. Walt Disney: An American Original

Executives, Cast Member Stories, and Business

• Barron, Lynn and Ken Pellman. Cleaning the Kingdom (series) • Barnes, Jeffrey A. Beyond the Wisdom of Walt • Cockerell, Dan. How’s the Culture in Your Kingdom? • . • Eisner, Michael D. Work in Progress • Iger, Robert A. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO as • Stewart, James B., Disney War • Williams, Pat with Jim Denney. How to Be Like Walt

Animation, Animated Characters, and The Walt Disney Studios

• Bohn, James. Music in Disney’s Animated Features: and the to The Jungle Book • Bossert, David A. An Animator’s Gallery: Draws the Disney Characters • Bossert, David A. Dali and Disney: : The Story, Artwork, and Friendship Behind the Legendary Film • Bossert, David A. Kem Weber: Mid-Century Furniture Designs for the Disney Studios • Bossert, David A. : The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons • Canemaker, John. The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis and the Secrets of Walt Disney’s Movie Magic • Clark, Miriam Leslie. Glimpses into the Golden Age of Disney Animation • Clark, Steven and Rebecca Cline. The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot to Remember • Culhane, John. 2000: Visions of Hope • Culhane, John. Walt Disney’s Fantasia • Deja, Andreas. Mickey Mouse: From Walt to the World • Deja, Andreas. The Nine Old Men: Lessons, Techniques, and Inspiration from Disney’s Great Animators • Ghez, Didier. They Drew as They Pleased (series) • Hahn, Don and Tracey Miller-Zarneke. Before Ever After: The Lost Lectures of Walt Disney’s Animation Studio • Holt, Natalia. Queens of Animation • Johnson, Mindy. Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation • Johnson, Mindy. Pencils, Pens, & Brushes: A Great Girls Guide to Disney Animation (children’s book) • Johnson, Mindy. : An Evolution • Johnston, Ollie and . Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life • Johnston, Ollie and Frank Thomas. Too Funny for Words • Kaufman, J. B. The Fairest One of All: The Making of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • Kaufman, J. B. : The Making of the Disney Epic • Kaufman, J.B. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Art and Creation of Walt Disney’s Classic Animated Film • Kaufman, J.B. and David Gerstein. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History • Korkis, Jim. The Book of Mouse: A Celebration of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse • Kurtti, Jeff. The Art of • MacLean, Fraser. Setting the Scene: The Art and Evolution of Animated Layout • Renault, Christian. The Best of Disney’s Animated Features: Volume 1 • Roberts, Fulton and Marc Davis. Chanticleer and the Fox: A Chaucerian Tale (From the Disney Archives) • Solomon, Charles. The : A Celebration of Art and Creativity • Solomon, Charles. Once Upon a Dream • Solomon, Charles. Tale as Old as Time: The Art and Making of Disney’s • Solomon, Charles. A Wish Your Heart Makes • Szasz, Ioan. Awaking Beauty: The Art of • TASCHEN. The Walt Disney Film Archives: The Animated Movies: 1921 – 1968 • Walt Disney Animation Studios. The Archive Series: Story • Walt Disney Animation Studios. The Archive Series: Animation • Walt Disney Animation Studios. The Archive Series: Design • Walt Disney Animation Studios. The Archive Series: Layout and Background

Miscellaneous Disney: History, Anecdotes, Lists, Specific Eras, Niche Topics, Etc.

• Crawford, Michael. The Progress City Primer: Stories, Secrets, and Silliness from the Many Worlds of Walt Disney • Hahn, Don. Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Disney’s Magical Mid-Century • Hyperion Historical Alliance. 2019 Hyperion Historical Alliance Annual • Hyperion Historical Alliance. 2020 Hyperion Historical Alliance Annual • Goldberg, Aaron H. The Disney Story • Kiste, Andrew. Walt Disney and the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair: Great Moments • Korkis, Jim. How to be a Disney Historian: Tips from the Top Professionals • Korkis, Jim. The Vault of Walt (series) • Kurtti, Jeff. From All of Us to All of You: The Disney Christmas Card • Lucas, Christopher. Top Disney: 100 Top Ten Lists of the Best of Disney, from the Man to the Mouse and Beyond • Mason, James. Disney Connections and Collections: Volume 1 • Moran, Christian. Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: Walt Disney and Technology • Smith, Dave. Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia • Smothers, Marcy Carriker. Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful Food • Solomon, Charles. The Disney That Never Was • Watts, Steven. The Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney, and the American Way of Life

Television, Comics, and Other Media

• Friedman, Jake. The Disney Afternoon: The Making of a Television Renaissance • Gerstein, David and , editors. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, by (series) • Ghez, Didier. Mickey Mouse on Stage and Radio in the 1930s • Grossman, Austin. The Art of Epic Mickey • Hollis, Tim. Mouse Tracks: The Story of • Kurtti, Jeff. From All of Us to All of You: The Disney Christmas Card • Mason, James. Disney Connections and Collections: Volume 1 • Osatinksi, Amy. Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way • Solomon, Charles. The Art of the Disney Golden Books

Live Action Films

• Ghez, Didier. The Making of Walt Disney’s Darby O’Gill and the Little People • Ghez, Didier. The Origins of Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures • Korkis, Jim. Who’s Afraid of the ? and Other Forbidden Disney Stories • Kurtti, Jeff. Practically Poppins in Every Way • Moran, Christian. True-Life Adventures: A History of Walt Disney’s Nature Documentaries • Wallace, Aaron. Hocus Pocus in Focus: The Thinking Fan’s Guide to Disney’s Halloween Classic