Kurt Wiese
(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
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 3 (1962)
Cowhand Goes to Town (1939)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Daisy and Dobbin: Two Little Seahorses (1948)
Author(s):
Gladys Taber
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Daughter of the Mountains (1948)
Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa.
Author(s):
Louise Rankin
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Dike Against the Sea (1948)
An exciting adventure, with two Chinese children, that teaches about life in China and about the values of Christian missions.
Author(s):
Mary Brewster Hollister
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Dirk’s Dog, Bello (1939)
A little Dutch boy helps rescue a Great Dane washed up on the dike of his village. But the large dog eats so much that he becomes a problem that only the whole village can solve.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Dogs (1927)
Author(s):
Julius King
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Don: The Story of a Lion Dog (1928)
Author(s):
Zane Grey
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Donkey Beads: A Tale of a Persian Donkey (1938)
Olagh, a proud grey donkey with long stiff ears, wants a master who will let him eat raisins, sleep in a bed of petunia blossoms, and bathe him with rose water. But his master does none of the sort, so Olagh runs away in search of a new one.
Author(s):
Anna Ratzesberger
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Down the Road with Johnny (1951)
Author(s):
Irene Smith
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Dumblebum (1947)
Author(s):
Elsie Glenn
Morris Glenn
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Early Old Testament Stories (1954)
Author(s):
Ethel L. Smither
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Eight Rings on His Tail (1956)
Author(s):
John Oldrin
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Ekorn (1939)
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Author(s):
Claes Leonard Hultgren
Haakon Lie
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Ella the Elephant (1931)
Ella is a happy baby elephant in India. Her mother takes good care of her, and she enjoys moving with the herd. However, Ella's carefree life with her mother ends abruptly when the herd is captured by humans.
Author(s):
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Eskimo Parish (1947)
Life of a Jesuit missionary among the Eskimos of northern Alaska.
Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Paul O’Connor
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Etuk the Eskimo Hunter (1950)
This is a story mostly of hunting, because hunting for food is the Eskimo's life. But it is also a story of a warm and human family and their neighbors, young and old, and how they live on the northern shores of Greenland.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Miriam MacMillan
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Fables of Aesop Selected, Told Anew and their History Traced (1950)
Joseph Jacobs selects eighty-two of Aesop’s fables.
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
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