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Big Hero 6: Hiro and Tadashi
This beautifully-illustrated picture book timed to release with Big Hero 6, focuses on tech-wiz Hiro and his older brother, Tadashi, as well as their unique styles and tastes in building robots! Readers will get a feel for their fun, compelling relationship, their mutual love for technology, and get to know the characters behind the super team, Big Hero 6!
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32 pages, Hardcover
First published September 23, 2014
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Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
--from Wikipedia
Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
--from Wikipedia
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June 5, 2024
The part about a fire breathing robot and Tadashi not being into it was crazyyyy
September 30, 2014
I liked the premise of this book - working together and not being afraid to try something new and big. The pictures were really vibrant and interesting, too, but the story was missing a powerful ending. It was more like an episode of a child's program than a picture book.
January 8, 2015
10/10 would cry again
December 7, 2019
I like the book. It shows the creativity between two brothers. And how smart they are. The bond they have with each other. I wish I had something like that with my brother. But I like how the brothers work together and come up with great ideas. And in the end they make a flying cat suit so the cat can fly. It’s really good.
September 8, 2020
A fun and sweet picture book about two of the best fictional brothers ever.
March 31, 2021
An extra star for the heartbreak.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 25, 2021
My kids love all things Big Hero 6
January 29, 2022
Hiro and Tadashi work together to ace their school project.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 24, 2015
To the general public, “Big Hero 6” is an animated feature film created by the Walt Disney Studios, released on November 7, 2014; and the accompanying Disney merchandising blitz of action figures, children’s picture books, and so forth. Comic-book aficinados know that “Big Hero 6” began in Marvel Comics in December 1998, and has gone through several evolutions by now. Disney has stripped the comic book history down and simplified it tremendously (the 14-year-old supergenius Hiro Takachico has become the smart but not freakish Hiro Hamada) for this movie.
This large (9.1” x 11”), thin (32 pages) $16.99 hardcover, midway between a preschooler’s picture book and a comic book, for the 6-8 age group (grade level 1-3), was released (September 23, 2014) over a month before the movie, to introduce 14-year-old Hiro Hamada and his older brother Tadashi. The setting has been changed from Tokyo in the Marvel Comics to the fictional mashup of San Fransokyo by Disney, where older teen Tadashi is a student at San Fransokyo Tech, “the top robotics college in the country.” Tadashi’s classmates are the Caucasian Honey, the Japanese Go-Go, and the Black dreadlocked Wasabi, with their hanger-on (and obvious comic-relief), the Caucasian cool dude Fred. (These are the Disney version of the “Big Hero 6” super-team.) When Prof. Callaghan assigns them to, “Invent something that will improve your household,” Hiro is allowed to join the class project.
The students make it a contest to come up with the greatest invention. All are colorful and humorous. The two Hamadas win, of course. What is surprising is that Baymax, the pudgy robot in the movie, is NOT included. “Big Hero Six: Hiro and Tadashi” was to introduce the human characters in the movie before its story got started. The Baymax balloon robot, and the teens as the Big Hero 6 super-team, didn't enter the story until the movie was released.
The book, in glossy full-color with pictures on every page by Disney Publishing Group illustrators Jeffrey Clark, Scott Tilley, and Lori Tyminski, does an excellent job of introducing the locale of a big West Coast American city that is almost entirely an expanded Chinatown-cum-Little Tokyo district; Oriental with a well-integrated multiethnic cast. The art is in the Disney cartoon style with a rough-edge, almost pixelated look, actually more suitable for the Disney animation of 1961 (“101 Dalmatians”) than modern CGI animation; but, hey!, their hearts are in the right place. The movie has been out for almost a year now, but for the children who loved it or are just discovering it and want more, “Big Hero 6: Hiro and Tadashi” is an excellent "before" story that shows the 14-year-old Hiro being introduced by his older brother Tadashi to the other characters.
This large (9.1” x 11”), thin (32 pages) $16.99 hardcover, midway between a preschooler’s picture book and a comic book, for the 6-8 age group (grade level 1-3), was released (September 23, 2014) over a month before the movie, to introduce 14-year-old Hiro Hamada and his older brother Tadashi. The setting has been changed from Tokyo in the Marvel Comics to the fictional mashup of San Fransokyo by Disney, where older teen Tadashi is a student at San Fransokyo Tech, “the top robotics college in the country.” Tadashi’s classmates are the Caucasian Honey, the Japanese Go-Go, and the Black dreadlocked Wasabi, with their hanger-on (and obvious comic-relief), the Caucasian cool dude Fred. (These are the Disney version of the “Big Hero 6” super-team.) When Prof. Callaghan assigns them to, “Invent something that will improve your household,” Hiro is allowed to join the class project.
The students make it a contest to come up with the greatest invention. All are colorful and humorous. The two Hamadas win, of course. What is surprising is that Baymax, the pudgy robot in the movie, is NOT included. “Big Hero Six: Hiro and Tadashi” was to introduce the human characters in the movie before its story got started. The Baymax balloon robot, and the teens as the Big Hero 6 super-team, didn't enter the story until the movie was released.
The book, in glossy full-color with pictures on every page by Disney Publishing Group illustrators Jeffrey Clark, Scott Tilley, and Lori Tyminski, does an excellent job of introducing the locale of a big West Coast American city that is almost entirely an expanded Chinatown-cum-Little Tokyo district; Oriental with a well-integrated multiethnic cast. The art is in the Disney cartoon style with a rough-edge, almost pixelated look, actually more suitable for the Disney animation of 1961 (“101 Dalmatians”) than modern CGI animation; but, hey!, their hearts are in the right place. The movie has been out for almost a year now, but for the children who loved it or are just discovering it and want more, “Big Hero 6: Hiro and Tadashi” is an excellent "before" story that shows the 14-year-old Hiro being introduced by his older brother Tadashi to the other characters.
February 13, 2015
Hiro and his older brother Tadashi work on an assignment from Tadashi’s professor to build something that will improve their household. After much thought, they reveal their flying cat rocket boots and discover their number one rule for being a Hamada Brother “Hamada Brothers don’t just reach for the stars. They reach for the flying cats.”
This story will appeal to fans of the Disney movie Big Hero 6. It features characters introduced in the movie in a new story. The picture book format is perfect for lap reading with a child or for an older child to read to by themselves. The large, colorful pictures look digitally produced, but illustration format is not specified in the book. As a librarian, I have to mention that while Hiro and Tadashi's invention is fun for them(I am not so sure it was fun for the cat.); how exactly does it meet the professor's request of creating something useful for the household? That point aside, I am sure that kids who enjoyed the movie will like the book,so that makes this a good purchase for libraries with demand for popular movie materials.
This book was provided by the publisher for professional review by SWON Libraries.
This story will appeal to fans of the Disney movie Big Hero 6. It features characters introduced in the movie in a new story. The picture book format is perfect for lap reading with a child or for an older child to read to by themselves. The large, colorful pictures look digitally produced, but illustration format is not specified in the book. As a librarian, I have to mention that while Hiro and Tadashi's invention is fun for them(I am not so sure it was fun for the cat.); how exactly does it meet the professor's request of creating something useful for the household? That point aside, I am sure that kids who enjoyed the movie will like the book,so that makes this a good purchase for libraries with demand for popular movie materials.
This book was provided by the publisher for professional review by SWON Libraries.
November 16, 2015
Rule no. 451: Hamada brothers never use something as lame as a notebook
Rule no. 452: Hamada brothers don't judge notebooks by their covers.
Rule no. 453: Incoming trolleys don't scare Hamada brothers.
Rule no. 454: Hamada brothers laugh in the face of trolley danger.
Rule no. 456: Hamada brothers' projects have to be CRAZY AWESOME!
Rule no. 457: Hamada brothers only show their world to the outside world when it's ready.
Rule no. 1: Hamada brothers don't just reach for the stars. They reach for the flying cats.
This book was super fantastic. Love the colours and the story.
Rule no. 452: Hamada brothers don't judge notebooks by their covers.
Rule no. 453: Incoming trolleys don't scare Hamada brothers.
Rule no. 454: Hamada brothers laugh in the face of trolley danger.
Rule no. 456: Hamada brothers' projects have to be CRAZY AWESOME!
Rule no. 457: Hamada brothers only show their world to the outside world when it's ready.
Rule no. 1: Hamada brothers don't just reach for the stars. They reach for the flying cats.
This book was super fantastic. Love the colours and the story.
June 20, 2015
The movie was great, so I had high expectations for a book. I'm sad that our main character wasn't there but the book was a fantastic simple message about working together, friendship, teamwork and sibling love. Gotta love it. Words were simple and a beginner reader can grasp most of the words.
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