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Bill Peet: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
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by Bill Peet

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Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page.

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Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page.

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A 1990 Caldecott Honor Book

Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page.

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In that compartment of the brain where visual memories are stored mine has been cluttered with an endless assortment of things starting with the two pigs we raised in my birthplace of Grandview, Indiana.

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  • Title Bill Peet: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
  • Author Bill Peet
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, Boston
  • Publication date 1994-03-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780395689820 / 0395689821
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 8 x 0.6 in (25.15 x 20.32 x 1.52 cm)
  • Age range 10 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 7
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Authors, American
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88037067
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

"An excellent blend of verbal and visual social history and self-revelation." Kirkus Reviews

Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/1999, Page 254

About the author

Bill Peet was the author of 34 books published by Houghton Mifflin. One of these, BILL PEET: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, was named a 1989 Caldecott Honor Book. All of Bill Peet's books published by Houghton Mifflin Company, including his first book for children published in 1959, HUBERT'S HAIR-RAISING ADVENTURE, remain actively in print today.

In both his career as an author and illustrator of children's books and in his work as sketch artist and continuity illustrator at Walt Disney, Bill Peet created a menagerie of memorable characters. As he himself noted, "I write about animals because I love to draw them. Most of my animal characters have human personalities, and some are much like the people I know."

At Walt Disney, where Bill Peet worked for 27 years, he was a key participant in the production of classic films such as Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and 101 Dalmatians for which he was not only an artist, but the screenwriter as well.

Bill Peet's signature style enabled him to create fast-paced stories of fantastical adventure delivered with warmth and laugh-out-loud hilarity. His unfailing humor did not, however, prevent him from addressing such poignant issues as kindness toward others and respect for the environment. Through the exploits of his characters, Peet offered his audience a chance to see themselves and their world through new eyes.

"At some point," Bill Peet once said, "it occurred to me that drawing was something I couldn't possibly give up, and somehow it must be turned into a profession." He went on to not only fulfill his dream but to introduce generations of young readers to his delightful vision of humor, friendship and compassion.

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