دامبو الفيل الطائر

by Helen Aberson

من سلسلة المكتبة الزرقاء التي أصدرتها دار الهلال ضمن إصداراتها لقصص ديزني

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Kids, Fantasy, Animals

170 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1941

Reviews

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute little Dumbo has always been one of my favorites. How all the circus animals all rejected him, but he ended up being the hero. The lullaby from the cartoon that his mother sings him from her cage, cradling him in her arms through the bars always moves me to tears as well.

[Adriana Scarpin · Rating 4 out of 5]

O bullying aqui é muito menos pesado do que nos filmes, o livro torna as coisas muito mais leves porque não precisa da manipulação que a Disney está acostumada. Pena que ninguém liga para reeditar esse livro desde os anos 40 ou será que a maléfica Disney colocou suas garras nos direitos da publicação original para inundar o mercado editorial com suas versões?

[Eddie B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

كتيّب صغير لطيف بصفحة نصية تقابلها صفحة مرسومة بالأبيض والأسود، مع القليل من "اللوحات" الملونة بالكامل. شكرًا لدار المعارف التي ما زالت حتى 2019 تبيع أعداد سلسلة "المكتبة الزرقاء" من ديزني - لم يصدر منها للأسف سوى أربعة أعداد - بسبعة جنيهات تقريبًا للعدد!

[Nightlizard · Rating 4 out of 5]

That was cute, simply cute :)

[Jay DeMoir · Rating 4 out of 5]

another childhood favorite though the movie hasn't aged very well.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great book

[Drew Graham · Rating 3 out of 5]

(3.5)

Little Jumbo is a sweet and happy baby elephant, but before long his overlarge ears earn him the unfortunate nickname of Dumbo. He doesn't fit in with his circus family, but before long, with the help of a true friend, he's determined to turn his weakness into a strength and overcome his challenges.

Once a couple met and married, and then a year later divorced, but were married just long enough to collaborate on a story about a little elephant with big ears who learns to use them to fly. All these years later, it's still a little unclear as to who wrote what, especially since the couple didn't split very amicably, and the book itself is actually out of print and very hard to come by, and the Roll-A-Book format in which it was originally printed is even harder to find (as far as I can tell it was limited to a printing of less than half a dozen copies in this novelty scrolling-page book format... I didn't find a copy of either myself, of course, but in doing my Disney source material research I found information regarding this book here and here, and I'm satisfied counting those as having read it). Enough history (though it is pretty fascinating), on with the story itself. It's a fairly simple plot with just a few primary characters, but they're strong characters and the plot is compelling and unique. The themes are classic and innocent but also universal and timeless. It's so simple that even Disney's very streamlined version (as the shortest Disney animated film) had to add a little padding to make it feature length. There are a few minor differences, but besides that, Disney's version is a pretty faithful adaptation. It's odd that this book in its original form has been SO hard to find, especially considering Disney made it immortal by animating it, but when you discover its history and that of its authors, it's not so very surprising.

The story behind the story is almost more interesting than the story itself, but this little tale of the elephant with big ears (of which Disney made a pretty faithful adaptation) is at once a timely and timeless underdog story. I don't know why it took so long for someone to come up with the idea of an elephant's ears being used as makeshift wings, but it's a little brilliant.

[পুটুশের · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was searching for Disney's Dumbo illustrated versions in ebook form. There some search result showed me about the original dumbo story not having Disney's logo. I read the full length original story on a personal blog with the complete description of this rare book. It is just awesome!

[Elliott Vaughn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this book literally until the covers tore off

[Matthew James · Rating 5 out of 5]

I decided not to look kinda like the too great man without the 20th century North American Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior Walter Elias Disney Productions Medici Brothers’ steamer circus train at all. He turned out to be my top favorite Dumbo character of all the Dumbo characters in Walt Disney/Walter Elias Disney’s classic, Dumbo. My top favorite character from Walt Disney/Walter Elias Disney’s classic, Dumbo turned out to be Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior the male North American 2-4-0 standard-gauge steamer tender engine locomotive that turned out to be the leader of the North American Walter Elias Disney Productions Medici Brothers’ circus train. His job was to work the railroad day shift and the railroad night shift in order to move the North American Walter Elias Disney Productions Medici Brothers’ Circus out on a journey to go run all the way from the North American Florida Winter Headquarters within the land of the North American US sunshine state, Florida to the far up north town of Joplin, Missouri within the North American United States of America North America country during the 20th century year, 1919 in the 20th century, and along the way, he went through the North American railroad train tunnels in order to go through the North American mountains and the North American hills so that he would not make crashes into the North American mountains and the North American hills, and he had to go cross the North American railroad train bridges in order to cross the North American rivers so that he would not fall down into the North American rivers below the North American railroad train bridges, and he pulled his heavy load up the big hill mountain by chanting “I think I can,” all over and all over again and he went down the big hill mountain by chanting “I thought I could,” all over and all over again when he reached the top part of the big hill mountain, and he tooted his steamer train engine locomotive whistle with happiness joy, and most of all, he gave me permission to be reminded of Tillie the female North American 4-2-4 Standard-Gauge Little Blue Switch Steamer Train Engine Locomotive from the 1930 North American folk fairytale, The Little Engine That Could, and he chugged toward his destination that turned out to be the first up north town of Joplin, Missouri that was outside the North American Florida Winter Headquarters and outside the big hill mountain when he left the big hill mountain behind, and he chugged onward and onward to the Joplin, Missouri town and he turned his baseball-cap-shaped headlight off, and he fell asleep in order to get his good night sleep as a bigger reward for pulling his heavy load over the big hill mountain when he finally got to the Joplin, Missouri town and arrived in the Joplin, Missouri town on his schedule date. Then according to my cheerful experiences with the 20th century North American Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior Walter Elias Disney Productions Medici Brothers’ steamer circus train, I decided to go run very, very, very, very, very, very faraway within a journey from Dumbo’s big ears to the 20th century North American Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior Walter Elias Disney Productions Medici Brothers’ steamer circus train when I decided to look kinda like the correct match for the 20th century North American Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior Walter Elias Disney Productions Medici Brothers’ steamer circus train in Dumbo. Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior decided to go through the North American railroad train tunnels and decided to cross the North American rivers and decided to chant “I think I can,” and “I thought I could,” over the big hill mountain when he decided to go reach his circus train destination in the North American Joplin, Missouri town. Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior decided to chant “I think I can,” and “I thought I could,” over the big hill mountain when he decided to go reach his circus train destination in the North American Joplin, Missouri town. He did it to look kinda like Tillie the female North American 4-2-4 Standard-Gauge Little Blue Switch Steamer Train Engine Locomotive from the 1930 North American folk fairytale, The Little Engine That Could on his journey from the North American Florida Winter Headquarters in the land of the North American US sunshine state, Florida to the North American Joplin, Missouri Town throughout the Casey Junior song in the 20th century year, 1919 in the 20th century within Walt Disney/Walter Elias Disney’s classic, Dumbo before long I was born in 1992 within the 20th century. That’s because the 20th century North American Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior Walter Elias Disney Productions Medici Brothers’ steamer circus train gave me permission to say that he was so biggest than Dumbo’s big ears and that he was better than Dumbo’s big ears and that he turned out to be my top favorite Dumbo character of all the Dumbo character gang and that he turned out to be my top favorite well-known main reason why I like the 20th century North American United States steamer circus trains. Despite Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior being painted black in the well-known original film, he has instead been painted a bright blue within most other material, including the Disney theme parks and the the real-live-action remake. Within the well-known original film, Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior’s eyes have visible pupils only within two scenes: when his whistle calls “All aboard,” and in the final scene, which is also the well-known only time he just also has a mouth. (The latter depiction of him can also be seen in the well-known early trailers that had been for Dumbo that was albeit without the decorations around his smokebox). The wagons that transported P.T. Flea’s Circus in A Bug’s Life were the well-known old boxes of Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior cookies. In the film, Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior does not appear to have the train engineer and the train engine fireman within his cab, so that it is unknown however he was able to move with-on his own in the first place that was unless he was a sentiment being. Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior climbed the big hill mountain when he chanted, “I think I can,” over and over again, and he chanted “I thought I could,” repeatedly on the way down. This was a direct reference to the classic children’s book The Little Engine That Could, in which the titular anthropomorphic steamer tender engine locomotive chanted these same words. In addition, Casey’s cab and firebox had their colors briefly inverted. The “Casey Junior” segment in Dumbo was possibly much longer during the film’s production. Not counting the segment featuring Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior in The Reluctant Dragon, concept artwork showed a possible deleted scene where he stops to drink water near a waterfall. Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior’s train, for some reason, seems to be constantly gaining and losing cars as he makes his journey; the well-known only time he was only ever seen with all of his cars intact is when he crossed the bridge before climbing the big hill mountain. The train that Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior pulled in the film, on the journey from the front to the back, is made deep up of a yellow passenger coach that carried the jugglers and the clowns and the talented acrobats and a flatcar with the calliope music organ and a various circus wagon and another flatcar that carried two other various circus wagons and an orange stock car that carried the circus elephants and a blue stock car that carried the monkeys and the horses and the zebra horses and the camels and another flatcar that carried the tent and its support and a light blue stock car that carried the giraffes [whose heads are clearly sticking through the roof] and one more flatcar that carried two more wagons and a pink stock car that carried the hyenas and the cool ape monkeys and the bears and the lion cats and the tiger cats and a light green stock car that carried the cool ostriches and the seals and the hippos and the kangaroos and a green passenger coach that carried the circus workmen and a numbered 2 red caboose car that carried the ringmaster. Also to be located at the end of the film, the numbered 2 red caboose car was replaced by a silver passenger coach reserved for Dumbo then Mrs. Jumbo. Within Dumbo, Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior is the 2-4-0 steamer tender engine locomotive, most likely to be part of a North American design, and numbered “8” on the North American Illinois Central Railroad and “1” with-on his own railroad, but in the 2019 real-live-action film, Dumbo, Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior appeared as the 4-4-0 North American type steamer tender engine locomotive, then numbered “41.” The 41 number on his number board is the reference to the year of the well-known original animated version of “Dumbo” which was released in 1941. Within the real-live-action remake, Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior also had the train engineer and a train engine fireman with him and he was a wood-burning steamer tender engine locomotive. His tender is too lettered Medici Brothers’ Circus but later relettered to Medici Family Circus. He was also the non-speaking character and non-anthropomorphic train, but does have the well-known inanimate face. The color schemes that Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior was wearing in the real-live-action remake turned out to be the same well-known one that he wears at the Walter Elias Disney parks and the spin-off media. Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior strongly resembles a steamer tender engine locomotive, that was built by the North American Baldwin Train Engine Locomotive Works in 1900 for the North American Old Sydney Colliery Company. It (numbered 25) worked at the Sydney, Nota-Scotia colliery until the well-known early 1960s. It was currently located on the display at Delano, Quebec Canada today. Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior also beared a considerable part amount part of resemblance to the Virginia And Truckee’s #21 “J.W. Bowker”, and even more so to the Denver And Rio Grande’s #1 “Montezuma” (despite the latter being 3-foot narrow-gauge, the point was that it had a 4-wheeler tender much like Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior’s). As the matter of fact, Ward Walrath Kimball, the North American Walter Elias Disney Studios animator picture drawing artist owned an 1881 Baldwin Mogul 2-6-0 steamer tender engine locomotive, which he ran on the Grizzly Flats Railroad, Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior is based on that particular engine. Within the real-live-action remake, Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior is based on the Pennsylvania Railroad Class D6 that was built by the PRR’s Altoona Works between 1881-1883 for the Pennsylvania Railroad. But it had the diamond stack and a shorter 6 wheeled tender, and no running board. Casey Junior/Casey Jones Junior’s sound was reused to be needed for the dishes on the journey from The Sword In The Stone, during which Sir sector pushes them to be located aside violently. His well-known Walter Elias Disney feature movie films were The Reluctant Dragon and Dumbo then Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Kronk’s New Groove then The Jungle Book (2016) and Dumbo (2019). His well-known Walter Elias Disney short film was Spare The Rod. His well-known Walter Elias Disney show turned out to be Mickey Mouse. His well-known Walter Elias Disney video games were Mickey’s Racing Adventure then Walter Elias Disney Emoji Blitz. His well-known Walter Elias Disney park attractions were the Casey Jr. Circus Train and the Main Street Electrical Parade then the Casey Jr. Splash ‘N’ Soak Station and the Happiness Is Here Parade. His well-known Walter Elias Disney Studios animator picture drawing artists were Ward Walrath Kimball and Don Patterson. His well-known voices were Margaret H. Wright and Mary Frances Gifford and his well-known inspiration turned out to be Casey Jones and The Little Engine That Could. His well-known full name turned out to be Casey Jones Junior. His well-known likes turned out to be pulling the trains and the safety and his talent to be right on time then his talent to chant “I think I can,” and “I thought I could,” over the mountains and the hills in order to go reach his well-known correct destinations. His well-known dislikes had been annoying the signals and the crashes and choosing to be late then the switch points that lie down on the job. His dialogue quotes had been “ALL ABOARD! LET’S GO!” then “WOO HOO!” then “I think I can,” and “I thought I could,” and “YAHOO!” then “WHEW!” The word song lyrics to the Casey Junior song in Walter Elias Disney’s classic, Dumbo turned out to be “Casey Junior’s comin’ down the track, comin’ down the track with a smokey stack. Hear him puffin’ comin’ ‘round the hill, Casey’s here to thrill every Jack and Jill. Every time his funny little whistle sounds (Toot!-Toot!), everybody hurries to the circus grounds. Time for lemonade and cracker jack. Casey Junior’s back, Casey Junior’s back.”

[Lauren Z · Rating 4 out of 5]

Way better than the movie!

[Sean Harding · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aberson A's #1
Retelling of Dumbo with average results.
Probably in this case just watch the movie.

[Judah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dumbo is an interesting case of a Disney film where the original source material is lost to time. Helen Aberson's story of the elephant who could fly was originally published as a roll-a-book (a sort of cardboard box with a rolling paper sheet in a window much like the rolls in a player piano). You can read more about the mysterious original here:http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/...

This edition is the earliest to survive, and amazingly at that as it was published in a low print run to full-fill the royalties due to Ms.Aberson as allot to her contract signing over the film rights to her book to Walt Disney Productions. Seemingly Heavily expanded from what we know of the lost original, this book is neither a direct copy of the Disney film nor the original plot. Instead, it seems a strange hybrid, most likely written and illustrated long before it's 1941 publication and the film's release. Interesting, and sadly, this has never been reprinted to my knowledge.

[Dharia Scarab · Rating 3 out of 5]

My love of reading started when i was young, and it gives me immense pleasure to provide books to Spread the Word Nevada, an organization that passes them on to children in the community. They are a terrific organization supporting an important cause. If your local I encourage you to check them out. For those living further a field, look in your own community, their may already be a similar program in place. And if not, you can always help start one.

http://spreadthewordnevada.org/

Myself, I go out on the weekends and
shop thrift store and bulk book lots to rescue books and donate them. Sometimes I'll find a book I remember reading when I was young and will read it again before passing it on.

I don't rate these books using my normal scale, instead I give most of them three stars. This isn't a Criticism of the book, simply my way of rating them as good for children.

[Janae' Hosley · Rating 5 out of 5]

A young circus elephant is born with comically large ears and given the cruel nickname Dumbo. One day at a show, he is taunted by a group of kids, inciting his mother into a rage that gets her locked up. After Dumbo's ears cause an accident that injures many of the other elephants, he is made to dress like a clown and perform dangerous stunts. Everything changes when Dumbo discovers that his enormous ears actually allow him to fly, and he astounds everyone at the circus with his new talent.

[Kimberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

A shorter version of the Disney movie Dumbo. I have always loved elephants so Dumbo will always be a favorite Disney character of mine and though there are parts of this story that I don't love overall it's a cute story.

[Cody Francis · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was not my favorite. I got upset once Dumbo and his mom got separated and after that I mildly fussed until I heard mom say "the end". I wasn't even amused when she made me fly like the little elephant!

[Partridge Public]

Disney, Walt productions

[Dolly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Our girls love Dumbo! We've read this story over and over.

[Diann · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of Lia's fav's right now

[Conquering · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who doesn't love a good Disney story?

[Shannon Nation-mays · Rating 4 out of 5]

i thought is was really good. i watched the movie after i read it and i thought they were both the same except the pink elephants and baby mine :( .

[Little Champs]

D 22 (3)

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically a summary of the book, which was exactly what it should be. If you enjoy the movie, you'll like this just fine. A great way to engage reluctant readers who are movie fans.

[Jackson Chevalon · Rating 4 out of 5]

2 year old wasn't interested part of the story

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a classic story and the pictures were amazing

[Carles Ribera · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ha sigut pa classe, molt bon conte hahaha