One day Walt Disney, a poor artist, drew a picture of a mouse and called him “Mortimer”. He wanted to make a movie about the mouse. Walt Disney’s wife looked at the picture and said the she eally liked the cute mouse , but she didn’t like the name Mortimer. She called the mouse “Mickey” and that is how Mickey Mouse began his career.

At first, Mickey Mouse was a bad mouse. He always got into trouble and he wasn’t kind to other animals. But people didn’t like it, so Mickey became a good mouse. He also became the cutest and most popular mouse in the history!

Walt Disney had another dream, too. He wanted to build a park where people can have fun with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and other friends. At first, Disney built a very small park in his yard at home. Later, he built a large park in California and called it Disneyland.

Walt Disney died in 1966, but his dream is still alive. There are now four Disney parks in different parts of the world. Do you know where?

The parks are at: California, Florida, Paris and Japan.