Bill Peet
Bill Peet (January 29, 1915 - May 11, 2002) was an artist and story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked on the Jungle Book, Song of the South, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians and other stories.
Peet was born in Grandview, Indiana.
Peet left Disney in 1964 to write and illustrate children's books. His first book was Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure. He wrote his autobigraphy in 1988.
Bill Peet's books for children are all beautifully illustrated, and many are poetry, although they read like prose. The stories have themes very suitable for children, such has trying when there's not much obvious hope, not allowing taunting of others from preventing you from succeeding, finding compromise solutions that make everyone happy and other uplifiting themes. Frequently, the stories have surprise endings.
Unlike most other children's authors, Bill Pete did not dumb down the vocabulary of his stories, but somehow managed to include enough context to make the meaning of difficult words obvious. Both the illustrations and the stories themselves easily capture the attention of almost all children. These features make these books excellent for both reluctant readers, and those needing to build their vocabulary.
Books
- Big Bad Bruce
- Buford the Little Bighorn
- Caboose Who Got Loose, The
- Chester the Worldly Pig
- Cock-a-Doodle Dudley
- Cowardly Clyde
- Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent
- Farewell to Shady Glade
- Gnats of Knotty Pine, The
- How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head
- Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
- Jethro and Joel Were a Troll
- Kermit the Hermit
- The Kweeks of Kookatumbdee
- The Luckiest One of All
- No Such Things
- Pamela Camel
- Perle the High Flying Squirrel
- Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock, The
- The Wingdingdilly
- Wump World, The
- Zella, Zack, and Zodiac
