Gustaf Tenggren
(1896 - 1970)
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.
Bibliography
Tenggren’s Bedtime Stories (1963)
This edition contains only three stories, The Gingerbread Man, Chicken Little and Little Red Riding Hood.
Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)
Fifty-two stories and rhymes about the old West.
Kathryn Jackson
Tenggren’s Pirates, Ships, and Sailors (1971)
The first edition includes forty-two stories, poems and songs. Later editions like this one had only twenty-six or even twenty-four as in the 2006 edition. They all have to do with the sea and sailors.
Kathryn Jackson
Tenggren’s Tawny Scrawny Lion (1952)
The Tawny Scrawny lion is always hungry from chasing other animals to eat. When he gets a taste of carrot stew cooked by ten fat rabbits, he finally has his fill. Later editions have fewer pages.
Read online at archive.org. This is an abridged edition.
Tenggren’s The Lion´s Paw: A Tale of African Animals (1960)
Only the mouse has the courage to remove the thorn from the lion’s paw. This is a large format edition.
Tenggren’s Topsy Turvy Circus (1953)
The giraffe comes to the rescue when the circus of Monsieur Augustin has difficulties.
Thumbelina (1953)
A very small girl has many adventures.
Två sagor (1915)
Two Danish stories translated into Swedish.
Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
The classic story of the young princess, the witch and the dwarfs.
Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2009)
The classic tale of the princess, the witch and the dwarfs.
Read online at archive.org.
Cynthia Rylant
Where Is the Poky Little Puppy? (1962)
Further adventures of a perennial favorite.
Read online at archive.org.
A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (1923)
Retellings of the classic Greek myths by the American master of the short story. Read online at Hathitrust.
Gustaf Tenggren