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
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.
Author(s):
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Dorothy Stall
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Paddy’s Christmas (1942)
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.
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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.
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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)
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
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.
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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)
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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