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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

Odie Seeks a Friend (1934)

Odie the Skunk finds that animals and human beings alike flee at his approach, but we leave him finally quite contented with the companionship of Hugh Skunk.

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

On Safari (1946)

The story of what it means to be an explorer.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Theodore J. Waldeck
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Oswald’s Pet Dragon (1943)

Oswald is an amateur magician whose household tricks annoy his wife. He finds a unique solution to keeping his dragon for a pet while satisfying his critical wife.

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

Our Country (1945)

Short stories and poems about the history of the United States.

Read online at Internet Archive.

Paddy’s Christmas (1942)

A young bear wakes up in midwinter and discovers Christmas.

Author(s): Helen Albee Monsell
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Panther Magic (1928)

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

Pecos Bill and Lightning (1940)

Relates the lore of Pecos Bill from his childhood with coyotes to the loss of his almost-bride, Lightfoot Sue.

Read online at archive.org.

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

Phil Stong’s Big Book (1961)

An omnibus containing Farm Boy, High Water and No-Sitch, the Hound.

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

Picture Book of Wisconsin (1951)

A brief introduction to the State of Wisconsin, her history, geography and people.

Read online at archive.org. 

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

Pika and the Roses (1959)

A young rock rabbit encounters his first weasel and learns the old trick that these small animals have always used to fight weasels.

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

Pinocchio (1946)

Pinocchio the wooden puppet learns from his mistakes and at last becomes a real boy.

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

Poems from Arabesque (1930)

Poems and short pieces originally performed over the radio by Yolande Langworthy.

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

Positive Pete (1947)

Pete gets anxious when his master becomes interested in a girl. But she knows well the way to a dog’s heart.

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

The Prince and the Porker (1950)

When the Prince, a trotting horse is taken to England he misses his friend Tam O’Shanter, the pig.

Read online at archive.org.

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

A Puppy for Keeps (1943)

Six-year-old David helps rescue a mother dog and her six puppies.

We count 26 unnumbered pages.

Read online at Internet Archive.

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

Quest in the Desert (1950)

An American scientific expedition to explore the Gobi Desert faces many dangers, but survives with the help of the leader's dog and a friendly Mongolian ruler.

Author(s): Roy Chapman Andrews
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1950

Quest of the Snow Leopard (1955)

This is a fictional account of a zoological expedition to the Tibetan frontier and the province of Yunnan in southwestern China.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Roy Chapman Andrews
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Rabbit Bros. Circus: One Night Only (1963)

The circus animals put on a special midnight performance for rabbits only. The show goes splendidly until the chimpanzee shoots six rabbits out of a cannon.

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

Ranger: Sea Dog of the Royal Mounted (1948)

A wonderful story of the adventures of a white husky dog named Ranger and a boy named Roger.

Author(s): Charles S. Strong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Ranger’s Arctic Patrol (1952)

This is the story of a race between shipping companies to provide the Canadian government with a ship that would sail through any kind of weather to provision arctic frontier settlements.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Charles S. Strong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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