Bill Peet: An Autobiography

by Bill Peet

Paperback, 1989

Status

Check shelf

Call number

J 92 Pe

Collections

BIOGRAPHY (WHITE & ORANGE labels, Biographies shelves), Animals

Publication

Scholastic (1989), 190 pages

Description

The well-known author and illustrator relates the story of his life and work.

Local notes

1701-082

User reviews

LibraryThing member burnsy_porchington

The most honest and realistic account of the animation industry ever written.

Bill Peet was arguably the greatest story artist to have ever worked at Disney, and in this book he pulls no punches on his career there.

If you're a fan of Peet's childrens' books as I am, you'll be thrilled to see that he

has illustrated his autobiography in the same inimatable style.

Fantastic!

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LibraryThing member labbit440

As a fan of Bill Peet's fiction, I very much enjoyed this alternate way into his life and work. This would appeal to those interested in Peet, and there's also a significant section that sheds light on the early days of Disney.

LibraryThing member KarriesKorner

I thoroughly enjoyed this Newbery Honor Award winner, but that's because Bill Peet is one of my favorite children's authors. I especially enjoyed all the pictures that accompanied the text because many of them are in his other books in one form or another. The text is accessible to middle school

readers, but I'm not sure many middle school students would actually read it. The Bill Peet books I've read to my children and classes are younger, so I'm not sure a student in 6th or 7th grade would really pick this book up. If they did, their memory would probably instantly take them back such classics as How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head and Eli. I'm just not sure if Peet's biography will grip that Newbery audience.

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LibraryThing member bookswoman

Award winning children's author Bill Peet wrote his autobiography as he wrote his books, aimed at children and heavily illustrated. He started out as a serious painter, was a long-time (26 years) illustrator for Walt Disney and concluded his career writing picture books for children. The story is

well told, although not a lot of detail since it is aimed at children. His time with Disney is fascinating since he worked on most of the famous feature length films after Sleeping Beauty. He did work on Pinocchio, Cinderella, Jungle Book, The Sword and the Stone and 101 Dalmatians to name a few. It was a fun, quick read.

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