Bill Peet

Bill Peet , was an American childrens book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked first on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs near the end of its production. Progressively, his involvement in the Disney studios animated feature films and shorts increased, and he remained there until early in the development of The Jungle Book . A row with Disney over the direction of the project led to a permanent personal break. Other feature films that Peet worked on before he left include Pinocchio , Fantasia , Dumbo , The Three Caballeros , Song of the South , So Dear to My Heart , Cinderella , Alice in Wonderland , Peter Pan , Sleeping Beauty , 101 Dalmatians , and The Sword in the Stone . Peets subsequent career was as a writer and illustrator of childrens books.

Bill Peet was born in Grandview, Indiana, on January 29, 1915. Peet began drawing at an early age, and filled tablets full of sketches. Often, instead of doing lessons, Peet would draw in the margins of his textbookswhich were very popular for their added illustrations when he sold them back. Animals were always a love of Peets. He and his friends would go traipsing through the woods looking for frogs, tadpoles, minnows and crawfish. Most of his adventures as a boy to catch animals were in the hope that he could capture them and sketch them. The young Peet would also sneak onto greeting parties at the train station as a boy just to see the trains mechanical workings. In addition, as a teen, he would try to sketch the circus big top, but he was always in the way of the set up crew. He memorized the scene and would reconstruct it from memory.

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