I am grateful for the warm support offered by all my colleagues in the English and Drama team at Homerton College and the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University. Special thanks need to go to Mary Hilton, whose encouragement and suggestions have been invaluable, and to Eve Bearne, whose support for my writing (and that of many others) over the years has been matchless. I would also like to thank Michael Bonnett for his generous response to an early version of the chapter on Bambi. It has been a pleasure working with the Ashgate team but I am particularly grateful to Ann Donahue, who has answered every query and anxiety that I have put to her with great patience, clarity and good humour, and to Kathy Bond Borie, who has been a model of efficiency and tact in completing the new edition. And I very much appreciate the work put in by Ruth Suggett, Louise Radcliffe and Jenny Knight, who helped sort out technical details of the project in its later stages. Perhaps most of all, I would like to thank my family; my wife, Rosie, for the positive support she has offered throughout (and for putting up with my distractedness); and my children, Jack, Eve and Beth, for sharing aspects of their delight and understanding of film as they have grown up. I would not have felt in touch with the quality of experience offered by Disney animation in the same way without them. Special thanks go to Beth, who shares my enthusiasm for the animated medium and who watched many of the films with me as I was researching the book.