 | WALT DISNEY: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL by Bob Thomas
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.92 The best biography of Walt, period.
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 | BUILDING A COMPANY: ROY O. DISNEY AND THE CREATION OF AN ENTERTAINMENT EMPIRE by Bob Thomas
Buy new: $21.33 / Used from: $4.40 If you want the complete picture of the history of Walt Disney, you have to see it through the eyes of his partner and brother. Has more on Walt than most bios devoted to Walt.
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 | Walt - The Man Behind the Myth
Buy used from: $70.51 Fascinating DVD or VHS on the life story of "Uncle Walt".
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 | Remembering Walt by Howard E. Green
Buy used from: $2.93 A compilation of other peoples personal experiences with Walt Disney.
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 | The Man behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney by Katherine Greene
Buy used from: $2.70 One of many biographies of Mr. Walter Elias Disney.
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 | Quotable Walt Disney by tk
Buy new: $7.88 / Used from: $2.99 A terrific little book, with Walt's comments on just about everything.
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 | Walt: Backstage Adventures With Walt Disney by Charles Shows
Buy used from: $4.75 A hard to find book by Walt's own publicist, interesting behind the scenes info.
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| Donald Duck joins up: The Walt Disney Studio during World War II (Studies in cinema) by Richard Shale
Walt oversaw the Disney studio's contributions to the the great war, including training films, and morale boosters.
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 | Disney by David Smith
Buy used from: $39.54 By the official Disney historian, Dave Smith.
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 | The Musical World of Walt Disney by Dave Tietyen
Buy used from: $7.00 Walt started every project with the selection of music, very important to the story in his eyes.
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 | Walt's Time - From Before to Beyond by Robert B. Sherman
Buy used from: $70.00 Walts favorite studio composers, touching stories.
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 | Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists by John Canemaker
Buy used from: $52.96 Walt started with animation. The beautiful pre-production sketches and paintings requestd by Walt that inspired the animators.
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 | Disney That Never Was: The Stories and Art of Five Decades of Unproduced Animation by Charles Solomon
Buy used from: $22.22 Incredible animated films that Walt started but left unfinished.
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 | Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation by John Canemaker
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $30.00 Walt's premier group of animators. Some later became Imagineers at Disneyland.
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 | Walt Disney Treasures - Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studio
Buy used from: $25.00 Walt Disney studio footage of animators and Walt on DVD. READ REVIEWS!
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 | Walt's People Volume 1: Talking Disney With The Artists Who Knew Him by Didier Ghez
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $16.27 Interviews with animators.
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 | The Disney Live-Action Productions by John G. West
Buy used from: $23.23 Walt moved from Animation to live action movies. Rare reference book on the behind the scenes filming the great theatrical live action movies
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 | WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY TELEVISION, THE: A COMPLETE HISTORY by Bill Cotter
Buy used from: $2.50 Then Walt discovered television. The best reference on all Disney Shows and series for television, huge book that has it all. Good reviews on this, and I agree.
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| Disneyland: Inside Story by Randy Bright
Buy used from: $37.42 And television financed Walt's dream of Disneyland. A lushly photographed history of Disneyland, you can't talk about Walt without including his biggest and riskiest dream.
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| Disneyland the Nickel Tour: A Postcard Journey Through a Half Century of the Happiest Place on Earth by Bruce Gordon
Buy used from: $169.99 Incredible book, if you can find it. Mine is under lock and key.
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| Window on Main Street: 35 Years of Creating Happiness at Disneyland Park by Van Arsdale France
Buy used from: $49.99 Walt dreamed of training Disneyland employees that would be wholesome and upbeat in appearance. Here is how they trained the cast.
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 | Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real by The Imagineers
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $19.50 Walt's built a dream team of artists, craftsmen, and modelers that he assigned to help secretly design the park. Their history.
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| Disneyland the Beginning by Carlene Thie
Buy new: $58.00 / Used from: $49.99 If my list helps you or entertains you, you can vote at the top of this page.
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 | Walt Disney's Railroad Story: The Small-Scale Fascination That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom by Michael Broggie
Buy used from: $89.55 Walt's dream for Disneyland started with a model railroad in his backyard.
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 | Walt Disney: His Life in Pictures by Diane Disney Miller
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $10.07 |
 | South of the Border With Disney: Walt Disney and the Good Neighbor Program, 1941-1948 by J. B. Kaufman
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $24.75 |
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