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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
Wheel on the Chimney (1954)
The story of a family of storks as they migrate from Africa to Hungary to raise their brood, then return in the fall.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
When it Rained Cats and Dogs (1946)
On a magical day, cats and kittens, dogs and puppies rain down on waiting children.
Author(s):
Nancy Byrd Turner
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
A Year in the City (1948)
Through the seasons of the year in a big city.
Author(s):
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely