Walt Disney: Creator of Mickey Mouse

I am writing a review on the book Walt Disney by Michael D. Cole. The author grabs the readers' attention in the beginning of this story by explaining how Disneyland was first opened. This books purpose is to teach readers about Walt Disney and how he became famous. This book is about Walt Disney and his life. It tells how Disneyland was created and when it was created. Also, it explains Walt's childhood and his living arrangements. He lived with his parents, Flora and Elias Disney on a farm along with his three brothers and one sister. It tells how he first started drawling to be a cartoonist. Walt's brother Roy influenced and helped Walt with his ability. Roy often saved his extra money to buy paper and sketch pencils for Walt to practice on. It tells how Mickey Mouse was created. Walt Disney won many awards for his creations. Sadly, after all his wonderful creations, Walt was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died at a hospital near his studio on December 15,1966. This book gives many interesting facts about Walt Disney. A few will be listed in the following. He was born on December 5,1901. The Disneyland amusement park was opened on July 17,1955. Walt played polo to keep physically active. He won many Oscars in 1954. Walt raised many animals; in fact he had a pig named Porker. Walt once said, "I guess I really loved that pig...She had an acute sense of fun and mischief...Do you remember the foolish pig in Three Little Pigs? Porker was the model for him." Walt Disney is most famous for his creation Mickey Mouse. This book is probably meant for a fifth grade reading level. I think over all this book is average. This book made me think that he was a very artistic and creative man. I learned a lot form this book. This also has values on other readers, by teaching how their favorite old cartoons were ever created. The author ended this book by telling how Walt's work will have an impact on everyone's life. This book gave enough information for me, but if you need to know more or if you want to, the book gives other suggestions. Well, thanks for reading my review. I hope you enjoy and decide to read this book.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about Walt Disney. It has a lot of good dates and interesting facts and pictures. The only thing I don't like about this book is that the picture captions don't usually say who is who. Walt Disney was born in Chicago. His dad's name was Elias and his moms name is Flora. He has three older brothers, Herbert, Raymond, and Roy. Later he moved to Missouri and lived on a farm. Then his sister Ruth was born. The book tells more about the farm life and funny incidents. His older brothers, Herbert and Raymond, left a note saying they moved to Kansas City. Later the rest of the family moved to Kansas City. Elias bought news routs and made the boys run them. Way later in his life, Disney stared his own company with a friend named Ub Iwerks. Later, Disney worked his employees to hard and Iwerks started his own company without Disney and Disney's brother, Roy, went to work with Walt. I don't want to spoil it, so I won't tell you all of Disney's firsts. He was the first one to do a lot of things with cartoons.

Great book! Did a great book report! 2 thumbs up!

The book was a good book. I used this book as a research guide and it was very clear and full of information.