Gustaf Tenggren
(1896 - 1970)
Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 - April 9, 1970) was a Swedish-American illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s, in what has been called the Golden Age of American animation, when animated feature films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced.
A website devoted to his work is at http://www.gustaftenggren.com/. A review article is at the Barnboken Journal of Children’s Literature Research.
Bibliography
5 Bedtime Stories (1957)
This collection includes Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Golden Goose and Chicken Little.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Adventure Tales (1967)
This is an anthology of previously published books about pirates, prospectors, cowboys and Indians and rhymes.
Author(s):
Jenny Dennis
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Andersen’s Fairy Tales (1935)
Author(s):
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bedtime Stories (1942)
This collection includes Chicken Little, The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and The Gingerbread Man. The pictures are in color and black and white. Later editions have only three stories.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Big Brown Bear (1944)
The big brown bear just cannot keep away from the honey tree, even though he knows what will happen if he tries to steal some honey. This Big Golden Book was also shortened and published as a Little Golden Book.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Big Brown Bear (1947)
Originally published as a Big Golden Book, this story of a bear who cannot stay away from a beehive has been a perennial favorite. Later editions are significantly shorter.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1917)
Author(s):
Cyrus Granér
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1918)
Author(s):
Cyrus Granér
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1919)
Author(s):
Cyrus Granér
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1920)
Author(s):
Cyrus Granér
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1921)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1922)
Author(s):
Cyrus Granér
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1923)
Author(s):
Cyrus Granér
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1924)
Author(s):
Cyrus Granér
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1925)
Author(s):
Cyrus Granér
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1926)
Author(s):
Cyrus Granér
Various
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
A Boy of the Lost Crusade (1923)
Young Roland Arnot joins the Children’s Crusade to search for his father in the Holy Land. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Agnes Danforth Hewes
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Bröderna Grimms sagor (1922)
A selection of Grimms’ fairy tales in Swedish published in two volumes. It was also issued in a one volume edition in German.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Canterbury Tales (1961)
Author(s):
Geoffrey Chaucer
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Children of the Moor (1927)
Author(s):
Laura Matilda Fitinghoff
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
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