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Kurt Wiese

Author, Illustrator

(1887 - 1974)

Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887 - May 27, 1974) was an award-winning German-born book illustrator. Wiese wrote and illustrated 20 children’s books and illustrated another 300 for other authors.



Bibliography

Wiggins for President (1939)

The Bean farm animals found the first animal republic and Mrs. Wiggins runs for president. In the meantime Freddy is founding the First Animal Bank of Centerboro. Later published as Freddy the Politician.

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Wild West Bill Rides Home (1946)

A children's picture book about a cowboy riding in the Wild West.

Read online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Muriel Millen
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Wit and Wisdom of Freddy and His Friends (2000)

A collection of short sayings from the saga of Freddy the pig with appropriate illustrations.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

With Love and Irony (1940)

American and Chinese cultural humor book.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Yutang Lin
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Wolf Tracker (1930)

A brutal short story about a man and wolf engaged in a classic battle of survival of the fittest.

Author(s): Zane Grey
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

World Song (1960)

Thirteen-year-old Red, a visitor from New Mexico and an "outsider" at a Costa Rican cacao plantation, makes friends with Juanito, a boy who shares his joy in observing the yellow warblers migrating from the Navajo country.

Author(s): Ann Nolan Clark
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Yinka-Tu the Yak (1938)

The story of a Tibetan boy named Sifan and an orphaned Yak his father gave him named Yinka-Tu.

Author(s): Alice Alison Lide
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

You Can Write Chinese (1945)

Teaches children simple words in Chinese and how the characters are formed.

We count 60 unnumbered pages.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1946

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1932)

At age thirteen Young Fu is apprenticed to a coppersmith in the big city of Chungking.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1933
Newbery Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1932

Young Settler (1938)

Hi Ellison goes to the Iowa territory with his family, and his horse, Euclid, who almost always wins her races. The local Sauk befriend him and make him a member of their tribe.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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