In case you didn’t know, we’re big Disney World fans around here!
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And when we can’t be at Disney World, we like to read about it. Whether we’re reading to plan our next trip, or to learn interesting Disney World trivia or history, we’ve amassed quite a collection of books about Disney World!
We’re sharing all of our favorite Disney World books with you, so let’s get into it!
Disney World Planning Books
Call us biased, but we think the best Disney World planning books are the Disney Food Blog Guides. Why? Because we wrote them, and we KNOW the hundreds of hours our team spends on writing new guides and updating them with all the most current information! They’re packed with our 5-step Disney World vacation planning process, extensive information on dining, budgeting, intineraries and more, and tips we’ve gathered from our team’s decades of Disney World travel!
Grab the DFB Guide!
The DFB Guides are ebooks that you can instantly download after purchase, to get started on your trip planning right away!
Our guidebooks have all our best tips!
For the best deal, grab our Everything Bundle! It includes the original DFB Guide to Walt Disney World Dining, as well as our individual guidebooks to EVERY EPCOT Festival, guides to EVERY snack in the Disney World parks, and our NEW guide to maximizing the Disney Dining Plan, which is returning in 2024!
The 2023 DFB Guide to Dining in Disney World
Disney100 Books
The Walt Disney Company is celebrating its 100th Anniversary, and that has prompted a number of retrospectives. These books make great gifts fo Disney lovers (including yourself!), and you’re going to want to collect them all.
The Story of Disney: 100 Years of Wonder
This 300-page “coffee table book” is so fun to flip through! It’s a companion piece to the touring exhibit from the Walt Disney Archives.
Disney100 Book
Art of Coloring: Disney 100 Years of Wonder: 100 Images to Inspire Creativity
Love to Color? You’ll love this book!
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Disney 100 Years of Wonder Storybook Collection
Here’s one for the kids — classic Disney stories bound in a beautiful keepsake book!
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100 Disney Adventures of a Lifetime: Magical Experiences From Around the World
Want a window into some of the most exclusive experiences Disney has to offer? Check out this book from National Geographic!
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The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms and Beyond
The new edition of this book is perfect for anyone who loves animation — it’s chockful of sketches, concept art and animation stills celebrating the work of Walt Disney!
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Disney Imagineer Books
The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic
If you LOVE the Haunted Mansion, we promise you’ll enjoy this book! It takes you from the earliest concepts for this classic Disney World ride through its evolution at different Disney Parks around the globe.
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Tony Baxter: First of the Second Generation of Walt Disney Imagineers
Tony Baxter started working at Disneyland as an ice cream scooper and went on to become a Disney Imagineer who helped create Star Tours, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and the Indiana Jones Adventure. This book tells his story
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Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making More Magic Real
This book, written by multiple Disney Imagineers, takes you behind the scenes into Disney’s research and development. This is the perfect book for anyone who dreams of being an imagineer!
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Women of Walt Disney Imagineering: 12 Women Reflect on their Trailblazing Theme Park Careers
In this Disney book, 12 women Imagineers discuss their careers at the Walt Disney Company, in their own words. It’s inspiring!
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The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering
This book is a must-have for anyone interested in Disney Imagineering! It’s an expansion of the stories presented in the Disney+ series!
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Behind the Ride: How Disney Imagineers Deliver the Magic
This book takes you behind the scenes of classic Disney attractions like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride and Space Mountain, as well as newer attractions like Flight of Passage and Slinky Dog Dash.
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Disney History Books
Walt Disney: An American Original: Commemorative Edition
This special edition of Walt Disney’s biography includes a 32-page insert with historic photos!
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Walt’s Disneyland: A Walk in the Park with Walt Disney
This interesting book takes you through Disneyland, land-by-land, to discuss the elements of the theme park that Walt himself touched.
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Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse. The Ultimate History.
Mickey Mouse fans! This is the book for you! It takes you through this beloved characters entire history — from the earliest sketches to his evolution though 9 decades of entertainment.
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Disney Parks Books
Buying Disney’s World: The Story of How Florida Swampland Became Walt Disney World
Sure, you know that Disney bought up a bunch of swampland in Central Florida to build Disney World, but did you know it was a top-secret mission led by a CIA operative? This book is a fun read!
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The Official Disney Parks Cookbook: 101 Magical Recipes from the Delicious Disney Vault
Love Disney Food and love to cook? This is the book for you!
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Disney Parks Little Golden Book Library
This boxed set includes five favorite Little Golden Books: It’s a Small World, The Haunted Mansion, Jungle Cruise, The Orange Bird, and Space Mountain.
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Poster Art of the Disney Parks
This book is so fun to flip through! It has 85 posters from Disney attractions around the world!
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Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai
There’s something about looking at a Disney Park Map! If you love them like we do, this book collects historic maps of every Disney Park. It’s like walking back through time!
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Disney Movies Books
The Walt Disney Film Archives. The Animated Movies 1921–1968
This book covers the Golden Age of Animation at the Walt Disney Company. It’s full of wonderful stories and images!
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The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot to Remember
Love Disney movies? This book tells the behind the scenes stories of the studio and the people who have worked there.
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Disney CEO Books
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
This book by Disney CEO Bob Iger discusses leadership lessons he has learned.
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And that’s a look at our favorite books about Disney World and beyond! Follow us here at Disney Food Blog for all the latest Disney news!
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