Walt Disney's the Brave Little Tailor

It's too bad Disney doesn't show its short cartoons anymore. This book depicts the 1938 animated short of the same name. Cartoons these days are trash, and Disney isn't the same as it was when brothers Walt and Roy Disney were alive. Kids these days rarely see the good old cartoons. This and the other books in the Disney's Wonderful World of Reading series that portray the classic cartoons should be reprinted. They would be better than all the crummy new cartoons that air today.

This book tells the tale of how the brave tailor Mickey wins the hand of the beautiful Princess Minnie. The story all starts off with some flies and a giant. While the rest of the town is worrying about some giant, Mickey is busy sewing in his little tailor shop. He isn't worried about the giant, just annoyed by all the flies that are buzzing around his shop. So Mickey gets out his flyswatter and kills 7 flies in one blow. He is so proud of this achievement he cried out to two farmers on the street `I killed seven with one blow!' As the farmers were talking about the giant, they assumed Mickey had killed seven giants with one blow.Through word of mouth news of this feat makes it all the way to the King, who seds for the tailor. First he asks how Mickey killed seven with one blow. After Mickey does a dramatic recital, the Kin g tells him, "Little tailor, if you will be my giant killer you may marry the princess." At this piece of news, Mickey gladly becomes the King's giant killer, even though he had no clue how to go about killing giants.So Mickey goes out into the country and who else should happen to appear but the giant. After a daring fight on Mickey's part (that was more dodging the giants strikes) Mickey manages to get the giant all wrapped up in thread so that "he could not move. He could not even stand up. The giant fell down with a great crash!" This crash naturally brought all of the townspeople to the field, and Mickey got lauded as a great hero, as well as getting to marry Princess Minnie.The pictures are bright, bold, colorful, cute, etc. Some of the best ones are when Mickey is brandishing his scissors to show to the King how he killed the flies. An interesting comment on the pictures is that while Mickey and Minnie are mice, all others in the story (all the townspeople, king, courtiers, etc.) are all people. Even the giant looks like a really big, normal person. I really like this story because of the cute pictures and the cute story line. The story itself is told in a simple straightforward way, as you might be able to tell from the quotes I included.Loggie-log-log-log