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Unlocking The Magic

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We often get asked what Disney books we recommend to get you in that Disney spirit before you’re next trip. Here’s a list of our favorites.

Dream It! Do It!: My Half-Century Creating Disney s Magic Kingdoms (Disney Editions Deluxe)
Dream It! Do It!: My Half-Century Creating Disney s Magic Kingdoms (Disney Editions Deluxe)
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Marty Sklar was hired by The Walt Disney Company after his junior year at UCLA, and began his Disney career at Disneyland in July 1955, the month before the park opened. He spent his first decade at Disney as “the kid,” the very youngest of the creative team Walt had assembled at WED Enterprises.

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It's Kind of a Cute Story
It's Kind of a Cute Story
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 IT'S KIND OF A CUTE STORY is the life story of one of the most beloved Imagineers, Rolly Crump. Covering his long and varied career, including designing some of Disney's most famous attractions and working directly with Walt himself.

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How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life
How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life
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One Little Spark!: Mickey's Ten Commandments and The Road to Imagineering
One Little Spark!: Mickey's Ten Commandments and The Road to Imagineering
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Walt Disney The Triumph of the American Imagination

Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry.

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Walt Disney an American Original

Walt Disney is an American hero–the creator of Mickey Mouse, and a man who changed the face of American culture. After years of research, with the full cooperation of the Disney family and access to private papers and letters, Bob Thomas produced the definitive biography of the man behind the legend–the unschooled cartoonist from Kansas City who went bankrupt on his first movie venture but became the genius who produced unmatched works of animation

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