The Books that Inspired the Disney Classics

Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Snow White, The Princess and the Frog, Tangled)

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Dumbo by Helen Aberson

Bambi by Felix Salten

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog by Ward Greene (Lady and the Tramp)

101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith

The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White

The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

The Secret Origin of the Aristocats by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe

Robin Hood as told by Paul Creswick

Winnie-the-Pooh & The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

The Rescuers & Miss Bianca by Margery Sharp

The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron)

Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus (The Great Mouse Detective)

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Oliver & Company)

The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont

Arabian Nights by Anonymous (Aladdin)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (The Lion King)

Pocahontas: The Life And The Legend by Frances Mossiker

Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

D'Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths (Hercules)

Fa Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior by Robert D. San Souci

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Planet)

Henny Penny by Paul Galdone (Chicken Little)

A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce (Meet the Robinsons)

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen (Frozen)

Big Hero 6 by Chris Claremont, etc.

Myths and Legends of the Polynesians by Johannes C. Andersen (Moana)