Richard Sherman is a songwriter and music director best known for his work with his late brother Robert. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best-known works include the songs from Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Slipper and the Rose, and "it's a small world."A self-proclaimed cartoonist, Floyd Norman has worked in motion pictures, television, comic books and strips. He's been writing and drawing cartoons longer than most people have been alive.Floyd wrote the syndicated Mickey Mouse comic strip for King Features Syndicate and worked as an animator and story artist on at least a dozen feature animated films for both Walt Disney Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. Though retired, Floyd continues to work as a consultant for the Walt Disney Company and is currently producing animation for the studio's Special Projects Unit. He has also helped develop video games and toys for Disney Consumer Products.
"A unique picture book by two Disney Legends: songwriter Richard
Sherman and artist Floyd Norman. Sherman with writer Brittany
Rubiano tell the story of a young Walt Disney in Kansas and how
fireworks inspired him and his imagination. Floyd and his wife
Adrienne illustrate the tale with beauty and grace."--Cartoon
Research
"An entrancing gift from Richard M. Sherman (one half of the
legendary Sherman Brothers song-writing partnership) and veteran
Disney animator, Floyd Norman: a delightful song and story about
Walt Disney's determination to end every day at his Disneyland park
with an unforgettable firework display that would serve as a loving
and rewarding 'kiss goodnight'. . . . The book will be treasured by
Disney families and the song will be enjoyed again and again by all
with the enclosed CD recording by Broadway's 'Mary Poppins', Ashley
Brown."--Brian Sibley, writer, broadcaster, and Disney scholar
"Richard Sherman is a bona fide Disney Legend. For Disneyland's
sixtieth anniversary, he composed a song based on something he
remembered Walt Disney saying about the evening fireworks display
at his park: he wanted to give his visitors 'a kiss goodnight.'
Another Disney Legend, animator and story man Floyd Norman, was
inspired to illustrate Walt's journey, from humble Midwestern
beginnings to world-famous storyteller and entertainer, culminating
in the creation of Disneyland. Sherman and Norman's combined
efforts make this slender volume a charming addition to any Disney
bookshelf. Best of all, the hardcover includes a sleeve with a CD
of Ashley Brown (the gifted performer who played Mary Poppins on
Broadway) singing Sherman's lovely song."--Leonard Maltin, film
critic and historian
"The story, which reads like a bedtime story, was written by
Richard M. Sherman and Brittany Rubiano. It follows Walt as a
hard-working, but poor kid growing up in the Midwest, with the
annual Fourth of July fireworks display. . . .The book is
beautifully illustrated by Disney Legend and Disney animator, Floyd
Norman. His wife, Adrienne Brown Norman, was the colorist and
contributed an illustration. . . . Throughout the book are lines
from the song, drawn by Music Copyist Leslie Smith Buttars. Sherman
wanted this in the book because 'it gave a warmth and humanity to
the music.' The hand-drawn staffs of music work beautifully and
truly give the book and old-fashioned warmth and familiar feel. . .
. A Kiss Goodnight is one of those rare books that successfully
combines a story with beautiful drawings and music into one that
children and adults will equally enjoy-often."--Huffington Post
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