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Fritz Wenger

Illustrator

(1924 - 2015)

Fritz Wegner was an Austrian-born illustrator. He resided in the United Kingdom from 1938. He had a long career as a freelance illustrator. He drew illustrations for a wide range of children's books.



Bibliography

The Better Brown Stories (1995)

Unhappy with the stories that are shaping their lives, the members of the Brown family go to see the writer responsible.

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Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Fritz Wenger

Friendly Matches (2001)

This is a collection of football poems covering a range of different aspects of the game. For example, referees, team talk, the 1966 World Cup, all written in different verse forms.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Fritz Wenger

The Giant Baby (1994)

A story about a famous doctor, a criminal trial, a kidnapping, a gang of desperate men, a little girl who wanted a brother and an enormous baby.

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Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Fritz Wenger

Heard it in the Playground (1989)

Collection of poems for children.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Fritz Wenger

Master Bun the Baker’s Boy (1980)

His dad is a baker. Even his grandparents were bakers. But Bertie has a big problem – he's bored of bread! He wants to be a butcher's boy, or a bus-driver's boy or even a balloonist's boy – and his wishes are going to land him in lots of ... View More

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Fritz Wenger

Ms Cliff the Climber (1997)

This is the story of the ups and downs, and tangles, in the life of Clara Cliff who marries, has children, divorces, remarries and has more children, with more than the usual quota of family fun and adventures.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Fritz Wenger

Please Mrs Butler (1983)

This is a children’s poem. It is a conversation between a student and their teacher.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Fritz Wenger

Woof! (1986)

Relates the extraordinary events that take place when, on an ordinary summer's evening, ten-year-old Eric Banks is turned into a Norfolk terrier.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Fritz Wenger

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