Johnson, Mindy Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s
Animation, 363 pages. Disney
Enterprises, 2017. $60. Content: G
Johnson has gone overboard and created an exhausting look at
the detailed history of Walt Disney’s life and business intertwined with
glimpses at the women – I think EVERY SINGLE WOMAN – who has ever had anything
to do with Disney on a corporate level in every single incarnation. Unfortunately the book is unwieldy instead of
being enlightening. It dwells more on
the minutiae of Disney corporate with such dense text that the stories of the
women get lost. The text could easily be
cut by a third or half to create a much more readable book. The only people who are going to like this
are the biggest Disney fanatics. Anyone
who is trying to understand about the non-family women who were important to
the shape of Disney needs to wait for a completely different book.
ADULTS, GIFT – OPTIONAL.
Cindy, Library Teacher
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