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Miska Petersham
(1888 - 1960)
Maud Fuller Petersham (August 5, 1890 – November 29, 1971) and Miska Petersham (September 20, 1888 – May 15, 1960) were American writers and illustrators who helped set the direction for illustrated children’s books as we know them today. The Petershams worked closely with such pioneering children’s book editors as Louise Seaman Bechtel and May Massee, and with such innovative printers as Charles Stringer and William Glaser. They worked as a seamless partnership for more than five decades. Both prolific and versatile, they produced illustrations for more than 120 trade and textbooks, anthologies, and picture books. Of the 50 books they both wrote and illustrated, many were recognized with important awards or critical acclaim. They are known for technical excellence, exuberant color, and the introduction of international folk and modernist themes.
Bibliography
Five Little Friends (1922)
Five school friends and their adventures in school and out. Read online at gutenberg.org.
Author(s):
Sherred Willcox Adams
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Four and Lena (1938)
Four children and a goose head for the mountains for the summer.
Author(s):
Marie Barringer
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Fun with Polly Parrot (1940)
An elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Earnest Horn
Rose Wickey
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Get-A-Way and Hary Janos (1933)
A worn-out stuffed horse and a broken-down toy soldier travel to the land where toys become new again.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Good English (1918)
An elementary school textbook of English composition. This is the original one-volume edition. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Seidel Canby
John Baker Opdycke
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Guld the Cavern King (1918)
Author(s):
Mary Lydia Bolles Branch
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Heights and Highways (1929)
An elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Hugh Lofting
Cornelia Meigs
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
History Stories for Primary Grades (1919)
An elementary school reader. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
John Walter Wayland
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
History Stories for Primary Grades: Indiana Edition (1920)
An elementary school reader with stories bases on American history. Contains a supplement based on Indiana history. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.
Author(s):
John Walter Wayland
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
History Stories for Primary Grades: Ohio Edition (1919)
An elementary school reader. This edition includes the Ohio supplement. The scan is only of the basic reader. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
John Walter Wayland
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
In Animal Land (1924)
An early elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Mabel Guinnip La Rue
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
In Clean Hay (1953)
A Christmas story about a puppet show in Poland.
Author(s):
Eric Philbrook Kelly
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Jesus’ Story: A Little New Testament (1942)
Bible text from the King James Version (KJV)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Joseph and His Brothers: From the Story Told in the Book of Genesis (1938)
Tells how his brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt, but God brought good out of evil and preserved his family from famine.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Language Garden: A Primary Language Book (1924)
An elementary school grammar book.
Author(s):
Alice Hawthorne
Inez M. Howard
Mae Howard
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Let’s Learn About Silk (1967)
The story of the making of silk.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
James E. Barry
Let’s Learn About Sugar (1969)
Tells the story of sugar cane and sugar through the ages.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
James E. Barry
Literature, A Series of Anthologies: Book Five (1946)
An anthology of American literature intended for high school juniors.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Literature, A Series of Anthologies: Book Four (1945)
An anthology intended for high school sophomores.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Literature: A Series of Anthologies: Book One (1943)
An anthology intended for seventh grade students.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ethan Allen Cross
Elizabeth Lehr
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham