What is the Best Disney World Book Ever Published?
Is there really a Best Disney World Book Ever? Asking that feels a little like asking a parent to pick a favorite kid…except my “kids” happen to be a collection of more than 1,400 Disney and theme park books. Still, people ask me this all the time, and I get why. The right Disney book can do something the parks can’t: preserve a moment that no longer exists, capture photos you’ll never be able to recreate, or tell a piece of history from a perspective you won’t find anywhere else.
The Gardens of the Walt Disney World Resort: A photographic tour of the themed gardens of the Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center and other resort areas is a book that takes us back in time to showcase full-color images of Disney World from the 1970s and 1980s. Often, these are photos that you can’t recreate in the parks or resorts any longer.
There are pictures in this book that you’ve never seen anywhere else!
Check Out My Video Review of The Gardens of the Walt Disney World Resort
What do you think about The Gardens of the Walt Disney World Resort?
If you’re hunting for a Disney World book that feels like a time machine, The Gardens of the Walt Disney World Resort delivers. First published in 1988, it spotlights the resort’s horticulture through photography (with Gene Duncan credited as the photographer) and preserves a version of Walt Disney World that simply does not exist anymore. If you enjoyed this peek, watch my video review for a closer flip-through, and if you want to support ImagiNERDing, consider purchasing the book through the links in this post. Jump into the comments and tell me which “lost” Disney World detail you’d step back into for five minutes: a vanished garden bed, an old entrance vista, or a long-gone resort corner that still lives rent-free in your memory.
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This sounds really interesting, I’ll give it a look! Also 1400 books is amazing. As a fellow librarian I have to ask – how do you store and organize them all? I don’t know if you’ve ever written a post on that but I’d love to see!
Thanks! For the most part, I divide it into theme parks by title. Then company information by title. Then biographies by title.
George, I completely agree! Out of all my Disney books this one’s my favorite and I keep it out as a coffee table book. It’s so beautiful and just gives me a little vacation of the mind to look through it.
Such a classy book, too. Love the green leather cover with gold embossing. The print and paper quality is phenomenal and the layout/design is excellent. So many Disney books are unfortunately marred by poor design or print quality, despite their good content.