Duck Tales

June 9, 1934 is recognized as Donald Duck's birthday. The Libraries has some fun, rare, and even thought-provoking titles that feature Mickey's aquatic bird sidekick (and his family).—Elizabeth Periale

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library:

Walt Disney's Donald Duck and the haunted house: a moving picture book. Walt Disney Productions. New York Franklin Watts 1980.

Donald's camping trip. New York : Franklin Watts, c1977.

Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library:

Walt Disney's Donald's camping trip. Los Angeles, CA : Intervisual Communications, c1977.  

National Museum of American History Library:

Walt Disney's Donald Duck : 50 years of happy frustration [created, designed, and produced by Three Duck Editions Limited ; text, Flora O'Brien]. Tucson, Ariz. : HP Books, 1984.

How to read Donald Duck : imperialist ideology in the Disney comic / / Ariel Dorfman, Armand Mattelart ; translation & updated introduction by David Kunzle, with appendix by John Shelton Lawrence. Dorfman, Ariel. New York : International General, 1991.

National Air and Space Museum Library:

Walt Disney's Donald Duck in Disneyland, / told by Annie North Bedford [pseud.] Pictures by the Walt Disney Studio, adapted by Campbell Grant. Walt Disney Productions. New York, Simon and Schuster [1955].

Donald Duck up in the air by Walt Disney. Racine, Wisconsin : Whitman Publishing Company, c1945.

Photos by Elizabeth Broman