Young readers will love this collection of five World of Reading Level 1 stories featuring all their favorite Mickey Mouse Clubhouse friends. Head to the farm, blast off to outer space, hop on board the Clubhouse Choo Choo and more with Mickey, Minnie and the rest of the gang!
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Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
We’ve got a Mickey fan in our house so when I happened upon these 5 books in 1 at the library, I grabbed it. We already have one of the books, but the other 4 books were new ones to us and now, 3 of them, we have read almost every day. I might just be buying a copy of this 160-page book for our house.
Like I mentioned before, there are 5 stories in this book: Mickey’s Perfecto Day, Ski Trippin’, Donald’s Stinky Day, Minnie-rella, and A Hot-Dog Day. Each story is around 30 pages long with bright, colorful illustrations, easy-to-read text, featuring Mickey and his friends. Ski Trippin’ in the story we haven’t read much which means we haven’t read it every day.
In Mickey’s Perfecto Day, the gang is in Spain where Donald is going to sing with his friends on stage. It’s going to be a perfecto day. Then, a rose lands in Minnie’s Daily Driver which causes a baby bull to follow Minnie EVERYWHERE! Donald is off to lunch with Daisy and his friends where he eats something spicy and oh no! Donald loses his voice. Who will sing on stage? What happens to Minnie when the baby bull catches up to her and Mickey?
In Ski Trippin’, Daisy forgets how to ski. Daisy packs everything (and I mean everything!) on this skiing trip so check out their car. She falls, slips, crashes and just can’t ski once they get on the snow. Mickey, Goofy, Donald, and Minnie try to give Daisy pointers on how to ski. Pete even helps as the big ski race is starting. Soon all the friends are skiing down the hill in the race, even Daisy!
In Donald’s Stinky Day, Donald is headed to the park to help Daisy when he spots a dog barking at something in the tree. Thinking it’s a cat up in the tree, Donald stops to help the cat after the dog is pulled away. That cat ends up being a skunk! That skunk likes Donald and goes with him everywhere. Donald doesn’t want the skunk for a pet and the skunk stinks. The skunk just wants to be Donald’s friend, but everyone is afraid of the skunk and now, they are afraid to be around Donald. Donald tries to get rid of the skunk, but in the end, that was not a good decision,
In Minnie-rella, it’s a story like Cinderella only a lot different. Mickey wants to surprise Minnie so they try to keep her busy with different jobs. When she falls asleep, Clarabelle (fairy godmother) visits her and gets her ready for Prince Mickey’s ball. A cute story. When Mickey gives Minnie her present after her nap, it was super sweet. Of course, at the end, they do the Hot Dog Dance!
In A Hot-Dog Day, Minnie is planning a picnic for her friends and makes a list of what she needs. Minnie starts getting things ready and soon, her friends start to help in the process without her knowledge. I loved how everyone came together to help make it a group effort. A great group of stories. 5 stars