Originally Posted By onlyme You'll be hard-pressed to find the 'best' DL books in your local bookstore. My local bookstores here in Fresno have a few, but not the great selection that you'll find at DL (or amazon). And, like others have said, the best prices are usually on Amazon.com. I wanted Remembering Walt...at DL it is $60; at Amazon, it's $48. Anyway, have fun.
Originally Posted By Capstan The best book I've found is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Disneys-Theme-Parks-Architecture/dp/2080136399/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266460349&sr=1-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Designin...9&sr=1-1</a> It was the companion book to a museum exhibition on the development of Disney's architecture. It's a collection of articles written by various scholars and is illustrated with a marvelous collection of photographs and Disney artwork. It's not really kid stuff, but is a serious look at the history and impact of the Disney theme parks. I've owned several of the books listed above, but this is the 'one' I recommend. It's about $53.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Another one I failed to mention that is also unfortunately out of print: if you can find some old E-Ticket magazines, those are completely awesome.
Originally Posted By jmuboy I HIGHLY recommend what I call the "DL BIBLES" - Disneyland: Inside Story by Randy Bright and The Nickel Tour by David Mumford and Bruce Gordon. Both books are out of print. The Nickel Tour is the better of the two in my opinion. It’s also hard to find and pricey. I was lucky to get it at issue price. Even then for a college student $75 issue price was high. Both books are worth every cent – if you are a DL fan you won’t be disappointed.
Originally Posted By Socrates Catching up today, so I just finished this thread. This is a favorite subject of mine. A good website devoted to Disney Books is "The Ultimate Disney Books Network" <a href="http://www.pizarro.net/didier/" target="_blank">http://www.pizarro.net/didier/</a> Lots of books are listed there. Two recently published books I'm looking forward to getting at my earliest excuse (and ought to be mostly about Disneyland) are "Walt Disney's First Lady of Imagineering, Harriet Burns" and "Wally Boag: The Clown Prince of Disneyland". Happy reading! Socrates "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Originally Posted By monorailblue Didn't read through the thread, but saw my two favorites both mentioned: Disneyland: Inside Story and Disneyland: Nickel Tour. Both are widely available, though out of print. Inside story can be had for around $50: <a href="http://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=bright&format=&title=disneyland&keyisbn=" target="_blank">http://www.biblio.com/search.p...keyisbn=</a> Another one usually not mentioned that I really, really like is Disneyland: The First Quarter Century, published in 1979/1980-ish by Disney. It is filled with excellent photos and some nice narrative about Disneyland as it stood after 25 years of creating magic. Can be had quite inexpensively: <a href="http://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&format=&title=disneyland+quarter&keyisbn=" target="_blank">http://www.biblio.com/search.p...keyisbn=</a> By the way, in case you hadn't noticed, I love www.biblio.com for out of print books, though I look at eBay and Amazon, too.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Well it is fun spending your money so I suggest Disney Treasures or Disney Keepsakes by Robert Tieman. Available in your pricerange onAmazon.com. It is a fun memorabilia collectors book. It has replica inserts such as the Eticket book and other souvenir, historical mementos.I think this author has a series of good books about Disney.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>>Another one usually not mentioned that I really, really like is Disneyland: The First Quarter Century, published in 1979/1980-ish by Disney. It is filled with excellent photos and some nice narrative about Disneyland as it stood after 25 years of creating magic.<<< I adore this one. We bought it at the start of the 25th anniversary, along with my Silver ears. I must have read it daily for about 10 years. Love it.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 >>>Another one usually not mentioned that I really, really like is Disneyland: The First Quarter Century, published in 1979/1980-ish by Disney. It is filled with excellent photos and some nice narrative about Disneyland as it stood after 25 years of creating magic.<<< That's good one, and two others of the same ilk (and probably also readily available on ebay etc.) are "Disneyland: Dreams, Traditions, and Transitions" which they put out for the 40th, and "Disneyland, Then, Now, and Forever," which they put out for the 50th. The 40th is probably my favorite of the three, but all three have their strong points. The 40th has nice timelines for when attractions were put in, and the 50th has a lot of pages where they show "then and now" where they show, say, Critter Country, then the next pages say "What was there before Critter Country?" and they show you Bear Country, then the next pages say "What was there before Bear Country" and they show you the Indian Village.
Originally Posted By mousermerf Just in case you ever want to know why/how they built the other parks and their relationship in the big scheme-o-Disney you can also pick up: Since the World Began and Walt Disney's Epcot Center - Creating the New World of Tomorrow. Both are "outdated" so to speak, but are rich in historical background.
