It's a Small World

         

 

I was so excited to find the book-and-record version of It's a Small World, although without the record, not that it matters since I don't have a record player anyway!  I'm pretty sure I remember having this as a kid.  I would love to take my kids to see the ride at Disney one day.  The amazing Mary Blair designed the look of the Small World ride.  Sorry for the sideways pictures at the bottom - I'm using BlogPad Pro for IPad and I can't for the life of me figure out how to rotate them.  

 

Bed knobs and Broomsticks

My blog is 3 years old this month!  I did a lot more blog posts in the first year of blogging and I hope I can start to blog a little more often than I have this year so far!  Almost all of my blog posts have been about books that I own, but this one is not.  I found this Little Golden Boom of Bedknobs and Broomsticks at a children's indoor play centre a few months ago.  It was in a basket in their reading area, and hopefully I did not weird anyone out as I sat there taking pictures of the book!  I love the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks and watched it with my oldest daughter for the first time a few months back.  Anyone else like Disney movies that are a little more obscure?

Disney's Robin Hood

Happy Blog-i-versary to me!  This month makes 2 years of blogging!  I love writing this blog and sharing fun things with my readers!

Disney's version of Robin Hood is one of my favourite childhood movies.  So when I saw this book-on-tape at a book sale a few weeks ago I snapped it up.  (Don't get in my way when I'm at a used book sale, man.  I'm on a mission!  Haha!)  I saw that Robin Hood is on Netflix now so I want to watch it soon with my daughters.  It's such a cute movie and the songs are catchy.  Recently my 7 year old and I were talking about something or other and it came up that she didn't know what a cassette tape is.  She thought it was a VHS tape (probably should be impressed she even knows what that is!).  But then when I showed her a cassette tape later she did remember seeing one before.  Wow, I guess they are archaic now!  I remember as a kid I would listen to books on tape on my headphones as I was lying in bed before going to sleep.  Or when I got a bit older I would listen to songs that were taped off the radio.  Remember trying to quickly tape a song off the radio when it came on?  You would sit there and listen until it came on just so you could hear your favourite?  

Walt Disney's Storybook Friends

 

 

 

 

Just a quick blog post today while the baby's sleeping!  I can't believe it's only a few weeks to Christmas...  I was talking with my friends Robyn and Whitney over at Pen Pals and Picture Books about how we love Christmas because it's a time to buy our kids all those children's books that we are secretly wanting for ourselves! ;)  My kids always get a lot of books for Christmas and birthdays and for other occasions too - the Tooth Fairy has been known to bring books, etc.  Now that my third daughter has just been born (1 month old tomorrow) I now have even more excuses to buy books!  Yay!!  :)

Cinderella - Disney Storybook Favorites

 

 

 

 

 

Love these gorgeous illustrations by Retta Scott Worcester, an illustrator for Disney in the 1930's and 40's.  I learned an interesting fact - that Retta was best friends with Mary Blair! (another amazing Disney artist.)  So funny as I had been thinking that her style reminded me of Mary's.

As I was thinking about the topic of Disney, I am realizing that my 7 year old has actually not seen a lot of the Disney movies.  I think she may have seen parts of Cinderella but not the whole thing.  She recently got the re-issue of The Little Mermaid on blu-ray for her birthday so now she has finally seen that one.  Don't get me wrong, she watches more than her fair share of tv, but I just haven't had a lot of Disney movies around for her.  She does watch the Disney Junior channel a lot and she would definitely love to go to Disney World!  I would love to take the kids too - I did not go as a young child but I did go to Epcot Center when I was 16 and again when I was in my late twenties.  Some of my favourite Disney films are Robin Hood, Peter Pan, The Aristocats, 101 Dalmatians, Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, and more.

Peter and the Wolf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love this book and I remember watching the film strip at school when I was a kid.  Great memories!  I love the theme music for the character of Peter. The wolf was sooo scary though! "Peter and the Wolf" is a composition written by Prokofiev in 1936.

Mary Blair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, I haven't been doing very well so far at getting back to blogging more regularly!  Hopefully now that my scanner issues are worked out I will do better.  Here is the glorious Mary Blair Treasury of Golden Books.  As I turn each page I think to myself "Oh my goodness.  Gorgeous."  It is definitely a treasure.  Mary Blair is best known for her work with Disney, especially the It's a Small World ride which was based on her designs.  Check out my friend Danzel's awesome Mary Blair Pinterest Board for more of Blair's amazing work as well as the YouTube video below.