Kurt Wiese

Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887 – May 27, 1974) was a German-born book illustrator, who wrote and illustrated 20 children's books and illustrated another 300 for other authors.

Background Kurt Wiese was born on April 22, 1887, in Minden, Germany. At the outbreak of World War I, he was captured by the Japanese, and turned over to the British. He spent five years as a prisoner, most of them in Australia, where his fascination with the animal life inspired him to start sketching again.

Others Brazil Jéca Tatuzinho by Monteiro Lobato (1924)

Others USA The following books have New York City publishers, except as noted: Bambi, A Life in the Woods, translated by Whittaker Chambers from the 1923 German by Felix Salten (Simon & Schuster, 1929), Poodle-oodle of Doodle Farm, Lawton and Ruth Mackall, (Frederick A. Stokes, 1929) The Hound of Florence, translated by Huntley Paterson from the 1923 German by Felix Salten (Simon & Schuster, 1930) Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (Philadelphia, Chicago: John C. Winston Co., 1932) Silver Chief, Dog of the North, Jack O'Brien (Winston, 1933) The Story about Ping, Marjorie Flack (Viking Press, 1933) Farm Boy: A Hunt for Indian Treasure, Phil Stong (Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1934) Ho-Ming – Girl of New China, Elizabeth Lewis (Winston, 1934) Honk, the Moose, Phil Stong (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1935) Valiant, Dog Of The Timberline, Jack O'Brien (Grosset & Dunlap, 1935) The Untold Story of Exploration, Lowell Thomas (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935) All the Mowgli Stories, Rudyard Kipling (Kipling Collection, Library of Congress; Doubleday, Doran, 1936) Sheep, Archer B. Gilfillan (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1936) Buddy the Bear ([Coward-McCann, Inc.] 1936) The Five Chinese Brothers, Claire Huchet Bishop (Coward-McCann, 1938) Yen-Foh A Chinese Boy, adapted from the Chinese by Ethel J. Eldridge (Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., 1939) Saranga The Pygmy by Attilio Gatti, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1939 Pecos Bill and Lightning, Leigh Peck (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940) With Love and Irony, Lin Yutang (John Day Company, 1940) The Ferryman, Claire Huchet Bishop (Coward-McCann, 1941) The Adventures of Monkey, adapted from the 1942 abridged translation by Arthur Waley from the Chinese of Wu Ch'eng-En (John Day, 1944) You Can Write Chinese, picture book created by Wiese (Viking, 1945) – a Caldecott Honor Book Censored, the Goat, Phil Stong (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne (Cleveland and New York: World Pub. Co., 1946) Li Lun, Lad of Courage, Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon Press, 1947) Hoppity, Miriam E. Mason. (Macmillan, 1947) Daughter of the Mountains, Louise Rankin (Viking, 1948) Fish in the Air, picture book created by Wiese (Viking, 1948) – a Caldecott Honor Book The Fables of Aesop, Joseph Jacobs (Macmillan US, 1950) Happy Easter, picture book created by Wiese (Viking, 1952) All about Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Frederick H. Pough (Random House, 1953) Lions in the Barn, Virginia Frances Voight (Holiday House, 1955) Pika and the Roses, Elizabeth Coatsworth (Pantheon Books, 1959) Twenty-two Bears, Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking, 1964) The Truffle Pig, Claire Huchet Bishop (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971)