Recommended Reading: Insights from Animation

• Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures is a large volume, the kind of book you could read a bit from every day for a year and learn something new each time.
• A Disney Sketchbook recommended by Rebecca Parham
• The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, also recommended by Rebecca Parham. This is a big, expensive book. For a lighter, more affordable introduction to animation, I recommend the following...

Tezuka School of Animation, 1: Learning the Basics is a slender volume you can read