Dumbo the Flying Elephant (story)
1939 children's story
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Dumbo the Flying Elephant is a 1939 children's story by Helen Aberson-Mayer and Harold Pearl. The story was adapted into Dumbo by Walt Disney Productions in 1941.
The husband and wife writing duo, Aberson-Mayer and Harold Pearl, co-wrote the Dumbo story and sold it to Roll-a-Book in 1939. No copies of the roll-a-book version have been found, though proofs of the story and examples of earlier versions of the medium indicate it may have existed.[1]
Everett Whitmyre, the Syracuse advertising agent behind Roll-a-Book, sold the story to Walt Disney Productions in 1939. The story was supplemented with illustrations by Helen Durney. Aberson-Mayer may have earned about US$1,000, some royalties, and credit rights for the sale. A series of Disney Golden Book versions of the story began publication in 1940.[1][2]
