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Bill Peet

American screenwriter

William Bartlett Peet (né Peed;^[1] January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002)^[2] was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.^[3]

Peet joined Disney in 1937 and worked first on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) near the end of its production. Progressively, his involvement in the Disney studio's animated feature films and shorts increased, and he remained there until early in the development of The Jungle Book (1967). A row with Walt Disney over the direction of the project led to a permanent personal break.

Peet's subsequent career was as a writer and illustrator of numerous children's books, including Capyboppy (1966), The Wump World (1970), The Whingdingdilly (1970), The Ant and the Elephant (1972), and Cyrus the Unsinkable Serpent (1975).

Early life

Bill Peet was born in Grandview, Indiana, on January 29, 1915. He developed a love of drawing at an early age and filled tablets with sketches.

According to his autobio

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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 adven

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Bill Peet: An Autobiography

June 25, 2010

Fun autobiography written and illustrated by a children's book author/illustrator. While the story of Bill Peet's life is interesting - I had no idea he'd worked for Disney for 27 years! - the illustrations are the reason to read this book. Bill Peet's first love was obviously drawing. The text, while simple and sometimes amusing, just doesn't hold a candle to the fantastic and fantastical illustrations.

I appreciate Mr. Peet's humility. He is the man behind the "boy meets girl" sequence in Sleeping Beauty, the beautiful depictions of the baby Dumbo, and Cinderella's mice, and even based Merlin in The Sword in the Stone on Walt Disney himself. He naturally expresses satisfaction in creating those successful works, but he also shares some of his less successful moments. The cartoons he drew while trying to develop into a magazine cartoonist really weren't very funny, and he acknowledges that while displaying a half a dozen in the book. He chronicles the day he lost his temper and stormed out of Disney's Annex hollering "NO MORE DUCKS!"