![]() Most of his adventures as a boy to catch animals were in the hope that he could capture them and sketch them. He and his friends traipsed through the woods looking for frogs, tadpoles, and minnows. During that period Peet lived with his mother and brothers on the outskirts of Indianapolis, in a household run by his maternal grandmother. He developed a love of drawing at an early age and filled tablets with sketches.Īccording to his autobiography, Peet's happiest childhood times were the years following World War I - years during which his father abandoned the family. 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).īill Peet was born in Grandview, Indiana, on January 29, 1915. ![]() A row with Walt Disney over the direction of the project led to a permanent personal break. 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). Peet joined Disney in 1937 and worked first on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) near the end of its production. ![]() William Bartlett Peet ( né Peed January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios. ![]()
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