Walt before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928

The book looks to be a great read. My only issue was a sticker placed on the lower back cover of the book. This was hard to remove and left residue that is taking forever to remove.

This book is a very interesting bio of Walt's early life as an animator and filmmaker before the creation of Mickey Mouse. This book is exhaustively researched, and while this book is informative and interesting the amount and degree of research is its one weak point. There is way too much time spent detailing various aspects of extraneous information that offer very little valuable information about early Walt. Do we really need to know ancestral information about every person early Walt interacted with or where everyone lived in relation to the studio? Even with that said, this book is interesting and should be on every Disney fan's reading list.

Not much into biographies, had to get one for a school project (subject... psychology). Reading the biographies (yes, bought another one as I needed to have certain information to write a report, and the first one did not contain what was needed.) with a purpose behind the reading made them enjoyable to me. If you just want to read it for knowledge of the person or how hard getting your dream started can be, this is a good book. Having the knowledge of failures, progression, setbacks, and opportunities provides a well rounded individual and someone unattainable.

Just to show the wide audience that Walt Disney's start was not like the make believe world of rosy easy happy endings. He went thru a lot to be successful, try and try again, dogged determination to succeed and deserved the success at the end. It can be a business book inspirational reading for the future businessman. Like some saying from I forgot who, success is 90% hard work and only 10% luck.

I was really looking forward to reading this book, and, in the main, it is okay, but the author, who clearly has done his research, perhaps tries too hard to show that he done his research! I didn't really need a biography of every person and every place that Walt Disney came into contact with.Still, if you are a fan of the life and career of Walt Disney, this is a book that deserves to be in your library.

This book was disappointing...too much emphasis on early co-workers and places of business and not enough focus on the man himself. It left me wanting to know more about him and his early life.

Great book, love it

Excellent background on Walt Disney's early years. I've read several biographies of Disney and this book, apart from others, does an excellent job of providing details on those very early years. Heavily annotated.

I chose to read this after watching the film and doing a project on entrepreneurs at university based on my choosing of Walt and it got me wanting to read further into his life & career. Could not have bern more impressed with this book. Excellent read and i am craving to read further into the life after Mickey

Das Buch zieht sich ein bisschen hin... der beschreibt das Leben von Walt Disney bevor er Erfolg hatte,was sehr interessant ist und mir sehr gut gefallen hat. Allerdings macht es so mit so viel Detail dassich aufhören muss zu lessen bevor ich eigentlich will...

Like another reviewer said: books feels like a list of people and what they did, rather than an insight of Walt's life.

Livre qui a inspiré le film du même nom quand on est fan de Walt Disney il est un incontournable. Avec une préface écrit par sa fille