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Kurt Wiese
(1887 - 1974)
Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887 - May 27, 1974) was an award-winning German-born book illustrator. Wiese wrote and illustrated 20 children’s books and illustrated another 300 for other authors.
Bibliography
14th Street (1930)
Author(s):
Percy Shostac
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Abraham Lincoln (1942)
An interesting overview of Lincoln's life.
Author(s):
Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Adventure in Black and White (1943)
After years of exploring the African jungle, Commander Gatti writes a novel of young boys, black and white, with a touch of humor in a jungle adventure.
Author(s):
Attilio Gatti
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Adventure Stories from Story Parade (1950)
A collection of stories from Story Parade magazine.
The Adventures of Mario (1930)
Mario, the young hero of the book, helpless after the death of his mother and driven by an inner force as the animals are, grows up in the depths of the forest where he becomes one of the wild things.
Author(s):
Waldemar Bonsels
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Adventures of Monkey (1943)
The roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
Author(s):
Arthur Waley
Ch’eng-en Wu
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Alaskan Hunter (1959)
The book follows the life of a native Alaskan boy in his village and all of the challenges, perils and rewards that come to him.
Author(s):
Florence Hayes
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Alexander, the Tale of a Monkey (1934)
A delightful tale about a baby monkey who becomes a pet and the many escapades he gets into.
Author(s):
Edith Brown
Marion Brown
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
All About the Great Rivers of the World (1957)
This account of five great rivers traces the development of each river and the influence it has had on man. The Nile, the Amazon, the Yangtze, the Volga, and the Mississippi are the rivers discussed.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anne Terry White
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
All the Mowgli Stories (1936)
Mowgli was lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. This is a collection of short stories about him.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Amat and the Water-Buffalo (1962)
Amat, a young Indonesian boy, longs for the day when he is big enough to ride the water buffalo that works in the rice fields.
Author(s):
Mary L. Bachmann
Jeanette Guillaume
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Amos, the Beagle with a Plan (1953)
Amos' first plan is to get a cozy home where people will take him for walks and let him chase rabbits, but when one of those rabbits leads him astray and alone in the world, his next plan is to track down the home and people he has come to miss.
Author(s):
John Parke
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Angleworms on Toast (1969)
Thomas always pretended his favorite menu was creamed angleworms on toast. Then one day when he also pretended he was sick enough to miss school, his family thought he deserved whatever he wanted for lunch.
Author(s):
Mackinlay Kantor
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Animal Babies (1941)
Stories about a wide variety of animal young, from the familiar to the more exotic.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Alice Day Pratt
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Animal Story Parade (1951)
A collection of stories from Story Parade magazine.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Antonio Joaquin Robles Soler
Various
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Feodor Rojankovsky
Kurt Wiese
Animals of A Sagebrush Ranch (1931)
Picture of life on a Western ranch, chiefly through the animals of the ranch.
Author(s):
Alice Day Pratt
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Art of Freddy the Pig (2002)
A large selection of Kurt Wiese’s illustrations of Freddy the pig, with accompanying text by Walter R. Brooks.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Australia Calling (1946)
A humorous story of adventures Americans have in Australia.
Author(s):
Margaret L. MacPherson
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Bambi (1928)
“Bambi: A Life in the Woods” by Felix Salten was originally published in Austria in 1923. Simon & Schuster’s 1928 edition is based on an English translation by Whittaker Chambers.
Author(s):
Felix Salten
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Bambi’s Children (1939)
The sequel to Bambi follows the lives of the twin children of Bambi and his cousin Faline as they grow from fawns through adulthood.
Author(s):
Felix Salten
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese