[quote="crystally"]I've been wondering how do you guys know the books weren't written by Disney? Genuine question, I don't have the books but from what I've read the books were released under Disney.[/quote]
To release and to write are two very different matters.
I know they weren't written by Disney because I do my research well.
Alex Simmons, the author of the FIRST book in the "Disney's The Lion King: Six New Adventures" series ("A Tale of Two Brothers") does not work at the Walt Disney Company. He is a writer, actor, playwright, voice-over talent, speaker, and teaching artist who has his own clients and associations and writes for numerous different companies.
"Simmons has written three movie novelizations for Disney..." Disney didn't write them. It released them.
>> Alex Simmons personal web site <<And
this page of his site makes clear that that novel is his original story based on the hit film. As in he created and wrote it and then gave to Disney to make money of and to entertain kids.
I think it would be fairly pointless to go into detail with the rest of the book series' authors. You can research them if you will and find out that they are just professional childrens' book authors whho create and write for those who pay for it, including but not mainly, for Disney.
Nothing about that book series came from Disney except the film(s) the books base on. (And likely nothing about any of the books in the book universe that totally contradicts itself.) Disney just slammed its stamp on them so that it could make money with it and do whatever the heck it wants with them, and apparently Disney wanted nothing more but money out of them as the film makers didn't approve them but denied Kopa's existence in the movie universe.