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The Walt Disney Family Museum announced yesterday their first major special exhibition, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic.” The show is tied into the film’s 75th anniversary this year, and will be on view from November 15, 2012 through April 14, 2013 at the San Francisco-based museum.

I saw a preview of the exhibition yesterday afternoon and it will be a must-see for any Cartoon Brew reader. The more than 200 pieces of art on display will include conceptual drawings, early character studies, detailed story sketches, and animation drawings, as well as thumbnail layout watercolors, pencil layouts, watercolor backgrounds, cels, and vintage posters.

The show will be organized by sequence through the progression of the film, featuring plenty of never-before-seen artwork and behind-the-scenes stories about the film’s production. Artwork from deleted sequences like the Dwarfs’ Bed Buildng Scene and Snow White-dancing-in-the-stars fantasy segment will also be represented. The exhibition is curated by Lella Smith, the Creative Director of the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, and will be accompanied by an exhibition catalog written by J. B. Kaufman. (We’ve plugged the catalog earlier on Cartoon Brew.

Below is a preview of five of the pieces that will appear in the show. All images are ©Disney Enterprises, Inc. The watercolor concept of the witch in the rowboat was painted by Sam Armstrong; the witch offering Snow White the poisoned apple was drawn by Gustaf Tenggren; the layout thumbnail of the dwarfs looking over the precipice was drawn by Ken O’Connor. Click on any of them for a larger version.

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This morning while I was catching up on email, there was a post on Shelf Awareness that stopped my coffee cup in midair. Quoting from Molly Flatt’s question posed on the Guardian Book Blog, it asked “What was your favorite book before you learned to read?”

And here was mine–although there were many others read aloud to me that I loved, The Saggy Baggy Elephant by Kathryn and Byron Jackson and illustrated by the inimitable Gustaf Tenggren is  the one that I pored over, took to bed with me, “read” aloud from memory, and it still delights me when I see it. What was your favorite (or favourite?) pre-literate book?

So sweet, nice and super creative... she's my friend Ximena!