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Kurt Wiese

Author,Illustrator

(1887 - 1974)

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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.



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14th Street (1930)

14th Street (1930) book cover

This autobiographical story, in verse, is of a young Jewish man who falls in love with a young married woman. She is a Gentile of good family with traditions and standards. The book is an analysis of his emotions following the woman’s return to her husband.

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

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The Adventures of Mario (1930)

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Mario, the young hero of the book, helpless after the death of his mother and driven by an inner force as the animals are, grows up in the depths of the forest where he becomes one of the wild things.

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

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Alexander, the Tale of a Monkey (1934)

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A delightful tale about a baby monkey who becomes a pet and the many escapades he gets into.

Author(s): Edith Brown
Marion Brown
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Animals of A Sagebrush Ranch (1931)

Animals of a Sagebrush Ranch Alice Day Pratt book cover

Picture of life on a Western ranch, chiefly through the animals of the ranch.

Author(s): Alice Day Pratt
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Bambi (1928)

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Bambi: A Life in the Woods” by Felix Salten was originally published in Austria in 1923. Simon & Schuster’s 1928 edition is based on an English translation by Whittaker Chambers.

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

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Buddy the Bear (1936)

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Buddy the little Koala bear lives in Australia with his mother and learns about the different and sometimes dangerous animals he shares his homeland with.

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

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Bunny, Hound and Clown (1931)

Bunny, Hound and Clown Dhan Gopal Mukerji book cover

A collection of eleven, principally animal-themed Indic fables and legends.

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Author(s): Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Camel Bells: A Boy of Baghdad (1935)

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

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Captain Kidd’s Cow (1941)

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When their houseboat is threatened a gang of boys hijacks it and sets out down the Mississippi as pirates.

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

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The Clockwork Twin (1937)

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Uncle Ben builds a clockwork boy so Adoniram will have a playmate, but Freddy discovers a real twin.

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

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Dogs (1927)

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Illustrations and poems of dogs.

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

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Don: The Story of a Lion Dog (1928)

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Based on some of Zane Grey's own real-life adventures exploring the rugged West with professional guides, including the Grand Canyon area, he here tells the story of hunters with their hounds that go to the rim of the Grand Canyon in hopes of capturing mountain lions alive.

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

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Ella the Elephant (1931)

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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

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Familiar Birds in Rhyme (1928)

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Book with brief notes on some bird's nesting and migration habits, coloration, song, length, diet, etc.

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

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Farm Boy: A Hunt for Indian Treasure (1934)

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Harlan visits his cousins on their farm and helps them hunt for Indian treasure.

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

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Fifteen Rabbits (1930)

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Hops and his young rabbit friends must face all the triumphs and trials in the first year of life in the woods.

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

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Fish in the Air (1948)

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A tale of what Tai Fung, which means Big Wind, did to change the ideas of the little Chinese boy named Fish, who had persuaded his father, Honorable Fish, to buy him the biggest fish shaped kite he could find.

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

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Freddy the Detective (1932)

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Freddy discovers a talent for detective work and is soon on the case of the missing toy train.

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

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Great Kipling Stories Together with a Life of Rudyard Kipling (1936)

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A selection of Rudyard Kipling’s greatest short stories and poems.

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

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Ho-Ming, Girl of New China (1934)

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A twelve-year old girl finds a new way of growing up in the changing society of China in the 1920’s.

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

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