Description: Travel from Snow White's castle to Dumbo's circus tent and back to Neverland with Peter Pan through midcentury illustrations that Disney artists such as Al Dempster, Campbell Grant, and Retta Scott Worcester made for the Golden Books. This anthology of 10 stories is introduced by an essay with documentary photographs and drafts of gouache drawings.
Brief description:
Charles Solomon is an internationally respected animation critic and historian and has written for The New York Times, Newsweek (Japan), Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Variety, Télérama, and National Public Radio and is the author of 17 books on animation, including Once Upon a Dream: From Perrault's Sleeping Beauty to Disney's Maleficent and Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the first film book nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2008, Solomon received the LA Press Club Award for radio feature reporting and ASIFA-Hollywood's June Foray Award in 2015.
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