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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
Seven Little Postmen (1952)
Seven little postmen speed a young boy’s letter to his grandmother.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Seven Sneezes (1948)
When the ragman sneezes - look out!
Author(s):
Olga Cabral
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
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.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
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.
Author(s):
Jane Tompkins
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
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.
Author(s):
Joseph Krumgold
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Talking Typewriter (1940)
Johnny Hunt - and- Pecker learns to type from the Asterisk Man.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Pratt
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
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.
Author(s):
Irma Simonton Black
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Jessie Stanton
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Tell Me a Story (1940)
A collection of stories in both long and short versions with hints on how to tell them.
Author(s):
Dorothy Canfield
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Three Best Loved Tales (1974)
This compilation includes Tootle, The Happy Man and His Dump Truck and Scuffy the Tugboat.
Author(s):
Gertrude Crampton
Miryam Yardumian
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Tibor Gergely’s Great Big Book of Bedtime Stories (1967)
A colossal collection of picture books.
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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.
Author(s):
Gertrude Crampton
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Topsy Turvy Circus (1940)
When the circus gets in a jam, the giraffe comes through.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Train Stories (1949)
A collection of four original stories about trains.
Author(s):
Robert Garfield
Jessie M. Knittle
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Train Stories (1958)
An omnibus volume including Tootle, The Train to Timbuctoo and The Little Red Caboose.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Gertrude Crampton
Marian Potter
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Art Seiden
Trains, Boats and Trucks (1987)
An omnibus containing Tootle, and Scuffy the Tugboat, and Cars and Trucks, and Fire Engines.
Author(s):
Gertrude Crampton
Tibor Gergely
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Richard Scarry
True Monkey Stories (1941)
Mostly true stories about monkeys.
Author(s):
Frances Margaret Fox
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Two Logs Crossing: John Haskell’s Story (1943)
At sixteen John Haskell is suddenly the man of his family and makes good.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter D. Edmonds
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Very Stupid Folk (1938)
A Finnish version of The Peterkin Papers, based on folk tales.
Author(s):
Toivo David Rosvall
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Vienna that’s not in the Baedeker (1929)
A guidebook to Vienna.
Author(s):
Ludwig Hirschfeld
Thomas Watson MacCallum
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Adalbert Sipos
Watch Me, Said the Jeep (1944)
The Jeep shows the brass what it can do.
Author(s):
Helen Josephine Ferris
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely