FREE BILL PEET: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY PDF Bill Peet | 192 pages | 19 May 1994 | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | 9780395689820 | English | Boston, United States Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Skip to Content. Parents and caregivers: Set limits for violence and more with Plus. Parents need to know that this irresistible autobiography, written as a simple children's story, boasts lots of funny drawings, including favorite Disney characters. Join now. Add your rating. Discover the story behind the real-life genius who illustrated Peter Pan and Sleeping Beauty for the silver screen. Hundreds of lively characters, including Disney's own Dumbo and the Dalmatians, dance across the pages of this delightful book. With tenderness and affection, Bill Peet spins his life story into a children's tale in this illustration-packed volume. The first half covers Peet's boyhood adventures in the Midwest with enjoyable tales about drawing and fishing. The only element missing from the first part is a deeper sense of how Peet felt during the book's most poignant moments: being teased for not having his father around, and his father's sudden reappearance in his life, an event Peet says "marked the end of a happy childhood. The second half of the narrative mainly details the pressures Peet felt as a Disney employee, as well as Bill Peet: An Autobiography struggle to develop a solo career. Still, it shines Bill Peet: An Autobiography revealing light on the inner workings at Disney, and readers are treated to the tale of how Bill Peet: An Autobiography classic song "When You Wish Upon a Star," from the Disney movie Pinocchiocame to be. Bill Peet: An Autobiography a breezy storytelling style and delightful illustrations, Peet moves readers through the events of his life; although the book runs nearly pages, the drawings take up more than half. Families can talk about the story behind the familiar Disney images. 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Sarah This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [ I read it myself when I was a child, and I would recommend it whole heartedly. I was very sensitive and a bit troubled when I read of his trying child …more I read it myself when I was a child, and I would recommend it whole heartedly. I was very sensitive and a bit troubled when I read of Bill Peet: An Autobiography trying childhood, but the descriptions of his abusive father are brief and discreet. See 1 question about Bill Peet…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Bill Peet: An Autobiography. Jun 14, Calista rated it really liked it Shelves: art-lovelyaward-dorothy-canfield-fisheraward-caldecott, bage-middle-gradegenre-nonfictionz-bill- peetfamoushistioricalsub-dreams. This is close to a page book. It is for children with large print and pictures on each page. He was an animator at Disney since Pinnochio. He worked on Dalmations and the Sword in the Stone as the script writer, but he worked on most Bill Peet: An Autobiography the major movies at Disney. One of my favorite scenes from Sleeping Beauty is when the animals are Bill Peet: An Autobiography with Beauty and he came up with that. Originally, Walt hated i This is close to a page book. The rest is history. I have never read them, but I have heard of a few of them and they are now on my list to read. He wrote, Lambert the Sheepish lion and I loved that one growing up. I think there was an error with the library book I had. I read this for myself. I want to know more about that time at Disney. Man, the behind the scenes stuff was fascinating. View 2 comments. Sep 04, Julie rated it it was amazing Shelves: in-the-middlefavorite-books-for-elementary-ageindiana-land-of-hoosiers. His autobiography is completely illustrated--amazing! I was completely won over by this and can not recommend it enough to kids in grades and college students and adults, too! Now it has been a few months that I have had this book in my room and decided Bill Peet: An Autobiography New Years Eve to read a few pages and while the beginning didn't automatically pull me in I figured since it has Disney related information I should stagger on. Luckily between the beautiful illustrations and the fast storytelling you can read it within a few hours. Mentioning that I love this book is Bill Peet: An Autobiography understatement in of itself and I highly recommend everyone to read it. Bill Peet wrote this book with illustrations to give the impression that this is a children's book but honestly anyone can read this book Bill Peet: An Autobiography young or old because his life story is easy to understand the illustrations capture you into the story. His name may not sound familiar because he was charged in the animation and making the storyboard which essentially is putting the animated together by illustrating scene-by- scene sequence of the film. It is not an easy job and clearly we discover that throughout his time working at the Disney Studios. I have to admit that because I accidentally flip to a wrong page and discover he wrote ton of pages on Walt Disney that for me the beginning of life from Childhood to Adulthood was boring. It felt slow pace and like it was never going to end but honestly probably I wanted to skim through that era quickly because while I didn't grow up as troubled as Bill Peet, I can relate to him in many ways in my upbringing and family life. I find it interesting how the transition between making art for fun to an actual job was a simple transition for him in America because I've learned from countless books and movies in particular for a man majoring in art was either taboo or was discourage upon because of the notion that Art is full of naked people and that it wouldn't make any stable income. While Bill Peet experience some troubled times especially starting from High-School and College, we get to see that he persevere and always found a silver lining whenever he wanted to pursue new passion. Part of the reason why I finally read this book is because I just watched an 4- Hour Documentary PBS special on Walt Disney and it was fascinating to learn new details about him, his career, and the choices he made which weren't always so perfect. I got to learn that he is human just like everyone else and that humbles me because people portray him as though he is the God Almighty and he had no faults of any kind.