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Gustaf Tenggren

Author,Illustrator

(1896 - 1970)

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Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 - April 9, 1970) was a Swedish-American illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s, in what has been called the Golden Age of American animation, when animated feature films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced.

A website devoted to his work is at http://www.gustaftenggren.com/. A review article is at the Barnboken Journal of Children’s Literature Research.



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How They Carried the Goods: From the Creaking Sleds of Pharaoh to the Swift Airplane of Today (1932)

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A series of short vignettes describing how goods were carried in historical times.

Author(s): Charles G. Muller
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Jack and the Beanstalk: An English Folk Tale (1953)

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How Jack traded his cow for some magic beans that took him to the cloud land of the giants.

Author(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Juan and Juanita (1926)

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Juan and Juanita and their dog Amigo are kidnapped by Comanches and held captive for four years until they make their escape and trek three hundred miles home.

Author(s): Frances Courtenay Baylor
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1962)

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A retelling of the story of King Arthur and his Knights.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Barbara Lindsay
Emma Gelders Sterne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Kittens: Three Complete Stories (1958)

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This collection includes The Three Little Kittens, The Shy Little Kitten and My Kitten.

Author(s): Patricia Scarry
Cathleen Schurr
Illustrator(s): Masha
Gustaf Tenggren
Eloise Wilkin

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The Lion´s Paw: A Tale of African Animals (1959)

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Only the mouse has the courage to remove the thorn from the lion’s paw.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Little Black Sambo (1948)

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The classic story of a little Indian boy who turns the tables on a tiger who wants to eat him for breakfast. Later editions are much shortened.

Author(s): Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The Little Match Girl (1944)

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Forced to sell matches on the street on a freezing Christmas eve, the little match girl is taken in by a kindly grandmother.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The Little Trapper (1950)

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The little trapper gets trapped.

Author(s): Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The Lively Little Rabbit (1943)

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The lively little rabbit makes a new friend who helps him escape from the weasel. The first edition is in color and black and white. Later editions were all in color but much shorter.

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Author(s): Ariane
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The Lively Little Rabbit (1954)

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The lively little rabbit makes a new friend who helps him escape from the weasel. The first edition is in color and black and white. Later editions were all in color but much shorter.

Author(s): Ariane
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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More Farmyard Tales (1970)

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A collection of twenty-one stories about farm life.

Author(s): Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Mother Goose: A Work and Play Book for Silent Reading (1929)

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This is an elementary school reader based on children’s stories.

Author(s): Emma Miller Bolenius
Marion George Kellogg
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The New Illustrated Book of Favorite Hymns (1941)

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A collection of favorite hymns and carols.

Author(s): Inez Bertail
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The New Runaway Home (1954)

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This is Book 6 of the Alice and Jerry basic reader series. The Harding family pulls up stakes and moves to California.

Author(s): Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The Night Before Christmas (1951)

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T’was the night before Christmas
And all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring
Note even a mouse.

Author(s): Clement C. Moore
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Peggy’s Playhouses (1924)

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Peggy goes on a ten-week vacation with her Aunt Madge and discovers new playhouses wherever they go.

Author(s): Clara W. Hunt
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Pirate’s Loot (1931)

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Pirates and treasure for younger readers.

Author(s): Carolyn Rodgers
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Pirates, Ships, and Sailors (1950)

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The first edition includes forty-two stories, poems and songs. Later editions had only twenty-six or twenty-four. They all have to do with the sea and sailors.

Author(s): Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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