Bill Peet

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William Bartlett Peet (''né'' Peed; January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Peet joined Disney in 1937 and worked first on ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937) near the end of its production. Progressively, his involvement in the Disney studio's animated feature films and shorts increased, and he remained there until early in the development of ''The Jungle Book'' (1967). A row with Walt Disney over the direction of the project led to a permanent personal break.

Peet's subsequent career was as a writer and illustrator of numerous children's books, including ''Capyboppy'' (1966), ''The Wump World'' (1970), ''The Whingdingdilly'' (1970), ''The Ant and the Elephant'' (1972), and ''Cyrus the Unsinkable Serpent'' (1975).