From bedtime stories to the storyboard
From his boyhood in Indianapolis to 27 years on Walt Disney's story floor, Bill Peet's life was a single unbroken line between imagination and the page.
"Drawing became my number one hobby as soon as I could manipulate a crayon or pencil."
"My life really began there… I could see the light."
"It was like telling someone who wanted to be an architect to lay bricks."
"Walt the wizard never knew that I patterned Merlin the magician after him… I even borrowed Walt's no…"
"If you want to see some real entertainment, then see Mary Poppins!"
"First of all I had to please myself, enjoy the work, and write stories about things I liked to draw."
"The misfit is one of my themes that probably reaches the kids the most. We are all to some degree mi…"