1. Like many Disney movies, this one started as a book. Dumbo the Flying Elephant, written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, started out as a 36-page "Roll-A-Book." The "book" was a series of ...

This is about a flying elephant named Dumbo. We know that 2001 was the 60th anniversary of the release of the Walt Disney film based on the story. And that a sequel is in the works. We might not ...

Specifically in the case of Dumbo, the story of a baby elephant with ears so giant that they allow him to fly. Justin Springer and Ehren Kruger were unable to track down the Roll-a-Book ...

Roll-A-Book Publishers, Inc. of Syracuse, New York, acquired the rights to publish Dumbo from author Helen Aberson and her then-husband, Harold Pearl, who was the illustrator. Two or three ...

You’re thinking, this movie isn’t based on a book – but it IS! The original story first appeared as a Roll-A-book story by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl. A Roll-A-Book was a distinctive ...

“Dumbo” was seen, in many ways, as a course correction; it was based on something inherently populist (a roll-a-book aimed at children) and clocked in at just over an hour (“Fantasia” had ...

It's already happened with "Jungle Book" and "Beauty And The Beast." In a few months, we'll see a new "Lion King" and "Aladdin." And this weekend, a digitized "Dumbo" takes flight. Critic Bob ...

(Courtesy Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art) Remember that heartbreaking scene from Disney’s 1941 feature “Dumbo” when the little elephant visits his mom in jail and she reaches her ...