Perri and Her Friends

Title: Walt Disney’s Perri and Her Friends
Genre: Childrens
Author: Annie North Bedford (1915-2004), based on the book Perri by Felix Salten (1869-1945)
Illustrator: “Illustrated with Kodachromes from the Walt Disney motion picture
Photographers: Roy E. Disney, Hugh A. Wilmar, James R. Simon, Joel E. Coleman, N. Paul Kenworthy, Jr., and Walter B. Perkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, New York
Series: “A Little Golden Book”
Year: 1956; B (second) printing.
Pages: 22
Format: Hardback, small-format.
Provenance: “Animals” written in ball-point pen on front cover; scribblings from a brown crayon on inside back cover.
Opening Sentence: “Deep in the big woods, high in a tall tree lives Perri the squirrel.”
Random Passage: “Porro has a nest of his own. But it is not a neat and cosy nest like Perri’s. Porro’s is a loose, untidy nest made of leaves and twigs. No wonder it is always falling down!”
Notes: Charming 1956 kiddie book about a mama squirrel, a tie-in with the Walt Disney Studios live-action film Perri (which would not be released for another year). For imagery, the book uses not film stills but high-quality Kodachrome images photographed by the crew during the film shoot. Even on yellowed, 60-plus year-old paper, the photos look crisp and color-saturated.

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