About the Author

Jeff Kurtti is a leading authority on The Walt Disney Company, its founder, and its history. He is the author of more than twenty books, a writer-director of award-winning documentary content, and a respected public speaker. Kurtti worked as a production coordinator on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, followed by two years as the assistant to the president of the California Institute of the Arts. For several years, he worked for Walt Disney Imagineering, the theme park design division of The Walt Disney Company, and then for the Corporate Special Projects department of Disney. Since 1995, Kurtti has enjoyed a career as an author, write, and consultant in the motion picture, theater, and theme park entertainment industries. He was creative director, content consultant, a media producer for The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco and a producer of The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, a critically acclaimed documentary about the famed songwriters.

Reviews

PRAISE FOR FROM ALL OF US TO ALL OF YOU: THE DISNEY CHRISTMAS CARD "This is a book I have wanted to own for about the last 20 years! . . . ready be picked and arranged on your Christmas mantelpiece!"--Brian Sibley, writer, broadcaster, and Disney scholar

PRAISE FOR PRACTICALLY POPPINS IN EVERY WAY"This handsome hardcover is officially a tie-in book for the new Disney release Mary Poppins Returns, but in truth it is more. Prolific Disneyphile Kurtti has taken the opportunity to profile not only author P. L. Travers but several of the great talents who made the 1964 movie so great. He has also called on a number of fellow Disney experts like Jim Fanning (who discusses a TV adaptation from the 1950s starring Mary Wickes), Greg Ehrbar (whose specialty is soundtrack albums), Disney artwork curator Fox Carney, and Disney scholars Paula Sigman Lowery and Brian Sibley. You'll also read appreciations of the Sherman Brothers, an interview with Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell, and thoughts from other members of the current film's creative team, beginning with director Rob Marshall. Practically Poppins goes above and beyond the mandate of a movie tie-in to become a valuable book for any Mary Poppins fan."--Leonard Maltin, film critic and historian

PRAISE FOR THE ART OF DISNEY COSTUMING One of "20 Books Every True Disney Fan Should Have in Their Collection"--POPSUGAR

PRAISE FOR THE ART OF MULAN ". . . chronicles the production team's research trip to China and the creative development of the pic . . ."--Variety

PRAISE FOR TRAVELS WITH WALT DISNEY ". . . no small feat to do what Jeff Kurtti has done . . ."--Jason Cochran, Editor-in-Chief, Frommers.com

PRAISE FOR TRAVELS WITH WALT DISNEY "Highly recommended!"--John Canemaker, NYU professor and head of Animation Studies

PRAISE FOR TRAVELS WITH WALT DISNEY One of "20 Books Every True Disney Fan Should Have in Their Collection"--POPSUGAR