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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 Merry Shipwreck (1953)
While Captain Barnacle is away, the mice set his barge adrift.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Mr. Puffer-Bill: Train Engineer (1965)
Mr. Puffer-Bill can’t find just the right hat.
Author(s):
Leone Arlandson
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
My Big Golden Book of Words and Stories (1971)
This compendium includes My First Golden Dictionary, The Little Red Caboose and Three Bedtime Stories.
Author(s):
Edith Osswald
Marian Potter
Mary Reed
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Richard Scarry
Garth Williams
My Book of Birds (1965)
Pictures of parrots and other exotic birds with a short description.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
My Head-to-Toe Book (1974)
Animals show some of the things active kids can do.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jean Tymms
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
My Little Golden Book about the Sky (1956)
A primer of astronomy.
Author(s):
Rose Wyler
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
My Little Golden Book about Travel (1956)
The story of transportation from the raft to the jet liner.
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
My Little Golden Book of Jokes (1961)
A classic collection of jokes, riddles, boners and groaners.
Author(s):
no first name George
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
No Room for the Baker (1969)
His pets are crowding him out of his shop, so the baker decides to take action. Translated from the German.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Käthe Recheis
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Noah’s Ark (1969)
The story of God, Noah, the Ark and the Flood.
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Author(s):
Barbara Shook Hazen
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Noah’s Ark Book (1966)
A Golden Shape book version of Noah’s Ark.
Author(s):
Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Parrot Book: Parrots and Other Exotic Birds (1965)
This is the original Golden Shape Book version of this book about parrots and other exotic birds.
Author(s):
Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Peewee the Mousedeer (1943)
The story of one of the smallest inhabitants of the jungle.
Author(s):
Hendrik De Leeuw
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Poky Little Puppy and Friends (2017)
Nine of Little Golden Books’ greatest hits in one volume.
Quiz Fun (1959)
Hundreds of fun facts to stump your friends.
Author(s):
Horace Elmo
Nancy Fielding Hulick
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Red, White and Blue Auto (1943)
Mr. Head, Mr. Red, Mr. White and Mr. Blue learn to work together at the car factory.
Author(s):
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Rupert the Rhinoceros (1960)
Rupert the nearsighted rhino is a danger to his friends, until he gets a pair of glasses.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Carl Memling
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Scuffy the Tugboat (1946)
The little tugboat wants to sail on the big waters, until he meets the sea.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Gertrude Crampton
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Scuffy the Tugboat (1955)
Scuffy wants to sail on the big waters, until he meets the ocean.
Author(s):
Gertrude Crampton
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely