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 Seven Sneezes (1948)
When the ragman sneezes - look out!
Stories of Strange Happenings (1959)
A collection of stories and poems about strange events. Includes Helpful Henry and The Left-Over Hat illustrated by Tibor Gergely.
Flavia Gág
Grace Paull
Kurt Wiese
The Storks Fly Home (1943)
The storks fly south as the Germans conquer Holland in the spring of 1940.
Sweeney’s Adventure (1942)
Sweeney decides to visit the Bronx zoo rather than have a talk with his father about a bonfire behind the couch.
The Talking Typewriter (1940)
Johnny Hunt - and- Pecker learns to type from the Asterisk Man.
Read online at archive.org.
The Taxi that Hurried (1946)
The little taxi gets Tom and his mother to the train station on time. Later editions are considerably shorter.
Read online at archive.org.
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Jessie Stanton
Tell Me a Story (1940)
A collection of stories in both long and short versions with hints on how to tell them.
Three Best Loved Tales (1974)
This compilation includes Tootle, The Happy Man and His Dump Truck and Scuffy the Tugboat.
Miryam Yardumian
Tibor Gergely’s Great Big Book of Bedtime Stories (1967)
A colossal collection of picture books.
Read online at archive.org.
Gertrude Crampton
Tibor Gergely
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Janette Sebring Lowrey
Et al
Tootle (1945)
Tootle wants to play in the meadow, but engineer Bill knows he has to stay on the track, no matter what. Later editions have fewer pages.
Train Stories (1949)
A collection of four original stories about trains.
Jessie M. Knittle
Train Stories (1958)
An omnibus volume including Tootle, The Train to Timbuctoo and The Little Red Caboose.
Gertrude Crampton
Marian Potter
Art Seiden
Trains, Boats and Trucks (1987)
An omnibus containing Tootle, and Scuffy the Tugboat, and Cars and Trucks, and Fire Engines.
Tibor Gergely
Richard Scarry
Richard Scarry
The Very Stupid Folk (1938)
A Finnish version of The Peterkin Papers, based on folk tales.
The Vienna that’s not in the Baedeker (1929)
A guidebook to Vienna.
Thomas Watson MacCallum
Adalbert Sipos
A Year in the City (1948)
Through the seasons of the year in a big city.