Annie North Bedford

Annie North Bedford is the author of numerous books published as part of the Golden Books line. These include Walt Disney's Peter Pan and Wendy, a Little Golden Books adaptation of the animated Disney film, illustrated by Eyvind Earle and Peter Pan and the Indians which had a new story, both in 1952. She also adapted the film again for The Storybook of Peter Pan, a Big Golden Book published in 1969.

For many of these books, her role was to take the story of a feature film and condense it into a mere few hundred words, written at a level for young children. These included Disney's films Mary Poppins, Robin Hood, The Jungle Book, Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty. She did the same for the popular song "Frosty the Snow Man", before the perennial animated TV special.

For other books in this series, she wrote new stories for existing characters owned or controlled by animation house such as Disney, Warner, and Walter Lantz. These included Donald Duck and the Indians, Bugs Bunny and the Indians (yes, Westerns were big with kids in the 1950s), Chip 'n' Dale at the Zoo, Jiminy Cricket, Fire Fighter, Donald Duck in Disneyland, Bugs Bunny Gets A Job, Mickey Mouse Flies the Christmas Mail, Woody Woodpecker Joins the Circus, Seven Dwarfs Find a House, and many others. For other Golden Books, she developed the characters herself, including The Jolly Barnyard and Susie's New Stove: The Little Chef's Cookbook.