Books like A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: My Story

I confess to having been a fan of Annette since her Mouseketeer days. In the course of my work as a Stephen minister at my church I had occasion to help my care receiver find this book which she had heard about and wanted to read. When she finished it, I decided to read it to satisfy my curiosity about the adult Annette. I was glad to see that her experience as a child actress, and later as an adult in show business, did not corrupt her as it has some. She seemed to have held on to her family's values, in spite of her divorce and remarriage. She seemed to have raised good kids and, at least until the end of this book, maintained a close relationship with them. (I don't know what happened past 1994, but I have no knowledge that anything changed since then.)She seems to nearly idolize Walt Disney, which I found interesting in light of what many others who have worked for him have said. Perhaps he had a special place in his heart for children and treated his Mouseketeers differently than the adults who worked for him. Although I thought the focus of the book was going to be Annette's diagnosis and management of her MS, not much was said about it until the second half of the book. She kept it a secret at first, not wanting to worry her father, but letting her mother, children, and husband know. She was finally forced to tell her business associates when it began to affect her ability to perform. If you start to read this book because, as I did, you are curious about Annette and what working with Disney was like for her, you won't be disappointed. If you are reading primarily for information on MS, you might be.