This Disney Storybook Collection contains eight separate stories themed around Christmas. These are:
- Pinocchio: The Perfect Gift
- Lady and the Tramp: Lady's Christmas Surprise
- Bambi: The Wonderful Winter Tree
- Dumbo: The Best Christmas
- WALL-E: A Gift For WALL-E
- Monsters Inc.: Christmas Laughs
- Winnie the Pooh: The Sweetest Christmas
- 101 Dalmatians: The Puppies' First Christmas
Don't know if any of these have appeared in other collections (worth checking if you have any just in case). Here is a brief summary of each of the stories:
Pinocchio's story saw him trying to get the perfect gift for his father, Gepetto. Similarly the second story saw Tramp trying to get the perfect gift for Lady.
Bambi's adventure saw him face his first winter, which was hard, until a special Christmas tree appeared as if by magic.
Dumbo's tale saw him discovering what Chrismas is about when he helped deliver parcels to the New York children.
WALL-E's story was another involving finding the perfect Christmas gift, with EVE attempting to do just that for WALL-E.
The story at Monsters Inc. saw Mike and Sully racing against the clock to try and fill their electricity meters to light the Christmas tree lights in time for the big turning on ceremony.
Pooh's story was another about the giving of gifts and Pooh gets the sweetest gift of all (I wonder what that could have been?).
And the final story featured the 101 Dalmatians and was about how Christmas is about giving.
So overall there were eight stories of about 10 minutes each. The words to picture ratio was weighted a bit too much to the words-side I thought compared to other Disney books, and the stories were geared around giving, but did also cover a lot of other aspects about Christmas too, apart from the Christian part. They did feature a lot of characters so it would definitely be useful seeing all eight films prior to reading the book. But apart from all that it was OK for a few bedtime stories which are suitable to be read any time of year really, not just at Christmas time.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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