Tibor Gergely
(1900 - 1978)
Tibor Gergely (1900-1978) was an artist best known for his work in several popular children’s books. Born in Budapest in 1900, he studied art briefly in Vienna before emigrating to the United States in 1939, where he settled in New York City.
Largely a self-taught artist, he also contributed several covers of The New Yorker, mostly during the 1940s. Among the most popular children’s books Gergely illustrated are The Happy Man and His Dump Truck, Busy Day Busy People, The Little Red Caboose, The Fire Engine Book, Tootle, Five Little Firemen, Five Hundred Animals from A to Z, and Scuffy the Tugboat.
Many of his better known books were published by Little Golden Books. His best work is collected in The Great Big Book of Bedtime Stories. Gergely died in 1978, in New York.
As of 2001, Tootle was the all-time third best-selling hardcover children’s book in English, and Scuffy the Tugboat was the eighth all-time bestseller.
Bibliography
The Happy Little Whale (1960)
The little whale is captured and taken to an aquarium.
Jane Werner Watson
The Happy Man and His Dump Truck (1949)
All the animals want a ride in the happy man’s dump truck Read online at Internet Archive.
Houses (1955)
Pictures of houses from around the world.
A Hundred Tuftys (1940)
Tufty the bear and his friends, Aphrodite the rag doll, Tinkle the lamb, George the giraffe, and Fuzz-Wuzz the baby duck, get their pictures taken.
Jenny, the Bus that Nobody Loved (1944)
Jenny may be old, but she’s not decrepit and she has a gold button on her dash.
The Jolly Barnyard (1950)
The animals get together to give farmer Brown a birthday party.
Read online at archive.org.
The Jungle Books (1963)
The complete adventures of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle.
A Little Golden Book about the Seashore (1957)
Fun things to know about the seashore.
Read online at archive.org.
Little Golden Book Farm Favorites (2012)
An collection including A Day on the Farm, A Name for Kitty and The Jolly Barnyard.
Nancy Fielding Hulick
Phyllis McGinley
J. P. Miller
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Little Golden Book of Dogs (1952)
There are many different breeds of man’s best friend.
Little Golden Picture Dictionary (1959)
A dictionary with pictures of each word.
Read online at archive.org.
Little Gray Donkey (1954)
The little gray donkey is lonely until he befriends a family of rabbits.
Little Pond in the Woods (1948)
When their pond dries up, the animals of the forest go in search of water.
The Little Red Caboose (1953)
The little red caboose saves the train when the engine cannot make it to the top of the mountain. Later editions have fewer pages.
Read online at archive.org.
Little Yip-Yip and His Bark (1950)
A little dog has an annoying bark.
Kathryn Jackson
The Magic Bus (1948)
Jenny the bus may be old, but she has a golden button on her dashboard that will take you anywhere. This is an abridged edition of Jenny, the Bus that Nobody Loved.
Make Way for the Highway (1982)
The road engineers change the route of the highway to avoid taking down an old grandmother’s house.
Make Way for the Thruway (1961)
The road engineers change the route of the thruway so they don’t go through an old grandmother’s house.
The Me Book (1974)
Animals demonstrate the things active kids can do.
Read online at archive.org.
The Merry Shipwreck (1942)
While Captain Barnacle is away, the mice set his barge adrift.
Read online at archive.org. This is the later edition.