Originally Posted By davewasbaloo For the very best book about a Disney park though are by a couple of friends of mine, they did an excellent job on this one: <a href="http://www.laughingplacestore.com/product-0578.asp?r=d" target="_blank">http://www.laughingplacestore.....asp?r=d</a>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo And for current reading (though it is about all things Disney), may I highly recommend Tales from the LAughing Place.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub ^Good suggestion and extremely simple with all the bonus features of The Tales LP Magazine available at your fingertip above. Just click LP Magazine in the blue leader bar atop this site and all the photography "Told and Untold Tales" of LaughingPlace Magazine.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub If you view their link it has many different options. Basically lots of pictures but the photography has vantage points not available to the casual tourist. Sometimes the focus is on a celebration like Disney's 50th. Many are photos of worldwide resorts but I recently discovered this link and enjoyed it and wanted to recommend it to everybody. I also want to recommend a 2010 WDW Guidebook that is really fun to read.I kept on reading it every time I went to the bookstore and finally just bought it. Apparently they were approached by Disney to write this updated version...and it is full of fun facts about most of the attractions. Unfortunately i am not planning a trip to WDW soon it is still fun to read. I actually find it to be amazing with 2 small children you have time for posting but you seem to have a lot of love and fun and energy. And your children are adorable in those 2pics. I guess that is my overdue welcome to LP!
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I forgot The Complete Walt Disney World 2010 authors:Julie and Mike Neal Winner of Eight National Awards I hope they write a guide to Disneyland.
Originally Posted By SFH "davewasbaloo" wrote "Sadly, they no longer have current good books on DL. If I were a conspiracy theorists, I would say it is because they don't want you to see how the quality has gone down" I was just thinking about this the other day - what if there was an update to Inside Story? But then I had the same thought... it would be very easy to see a change in the quality and frequency of major new additions to Disneyland, and how they fit in with the themes of their locations.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Thanks MMC : ) I usually can steal a moment or two during the day to post when my kids are watching movies or something, lol. And they are a bit older now (2 and almost 6) so they like to play with each other a lot and I can supervise while making a quick comment or two. lol
Originally Posted By Marianne81 My favorites are: The Disneyland Encyclodpedia (I can't beleive no one has mentioned this one. It's an incredible resource) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Disneyland-Encyclopedia-Unofficial-Unauthorized-Unprecedented/dp/1595800336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266346310&sr=1-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Disneyla...0&sr=1-1</a> Designing Disney <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Disney-John-Hench/dp/1423119150/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Designin..._b_img_b</a> Walt Disney's Imagineering Legends <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Disneys-Imagineering-Legends-Genesis-Disney/dp/0786855592/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Disneys-..._b_img_c</a> I also second the recommendation on The Art of Disneyland. The pictures in that book are gorgeous.
Originally Posted By friarthe I want to give a hearty seconding to Marianne81. The Disneyland Encyclopedia is by far my favorite Disneyland reference book, and it's written well enough that you can pop in a couple little articles on break. Dave, that "One Day at Disney" looks amazing! As a kid, I always wished they would do that. (Like the 1980s coffee table books, "A Day in the Life of America" and its sequels.) Is it full-size? As glamorous as it oughta be? My one disappointment with most Disney photo/art books devoted to one artist has been that too many aren't as large as I'd like. I would pony up a lot for a large-scale version of "The Art and Flair of Mary Blair" or a solid coffee-table book with BIG images by John Hench, Peter Ellenshaw, Herb Ryman, or Harper Goff. And why haven't they ever done a book on Marc Davis? This is mind-boggling (to a geek).
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I have the Disneyland Encyclopedia and do enjoy it. I like being able to check on anything anytime and find it easily. That's where I got my questions when I was trying to stump the experts.
Originally Posted By LOVE-DCA I know one.. it’s called “Disneyland Questions and Answers: All you ever wanted to know by CuriouserConstance” lol lol lol
Originally Posted By Ohana i agree with the poster who said Randy Bright's DL:Inside Story" love that book although it desperately needs an update as it ended with splash mountain
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Randy Bright, who wrote Inside Story, died several years after the book was published.
Originally Posted By Ohana Sad but true Hans, but im sure someone could collaborate on the update, the first 35 years it covered were strong
Originally Posted By onlyme All the books others have mentioned are great. Some of my favorites are: Disneyland: Then, Now, and Forever...a lot of great photos. Walt Disney Imagineering Designing Disney Walt Disney's Railroad Story. This may not interest you, though. It's a bit long and in-depth.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance onlyme, are you saying I can't sit still long enough to read a big people book?
Originally Posted By onlyme hahaha....yes, there may not be enough pictures for you, but there is a section where you can color the pictures and play dot-to-dot. No, what I meant was that part of it goes in-depth about steam engines, in general. I'm talking diagrams and the like. It's not, exclusively, about DL. But, I liked it a lot.
