"My Head-to-Toe Book" by Jean Tymns, illustrated by Tibor Gergely (1974)

TIBOR GERGELY (1900 – 1978) was a Hungarian American artist best known for his illustration of popular children's picture books. Born in Budapest in 1900, he studied art briefly in Vienna before immigrating to the United States in 1939, where he settled in New York City. Largely a self-taught artist, he also contributed several covers of The New Yorker, mostly during the 1940s. Among the most popular children's books Gergely illustrated are The Happy Man and His Dump Truck, Busy Day Busy People, The Little Red Caboose, The Fire Engine Book, Tootle, Five Little Firemen, Five Hundred Animals from A to Z, and Scuffy the Tugboat. Many of his better known books were published by Little Golden Books. His best work is collected in The Great Big Book of Bedtime Stories. He became a U.S. citizen in 1948. As of 2001, Tootle was the all-time third best-selling hardcover children's book in English, and Scuffy the Tugboat was the eighth all-time bestseller.
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"Halloween: A Holiday Book" by Lillie Patterson, illustrated by Gil Miret (1963)

"One Dark Night" by Edna Mitchell Preston, illustrated by Kurt Werth (1969)

KURT WERTH (1896 – 1983) was a German-born illustrator best known for American children's books. He studied at the State Academy for the Graphic Arts in Leipzig before being drafted into the German army. After his two years of service he returned to the Academy where he studied the new graphic techniques and tried them out as illustrations of literary works. Werth and his wife moved to Munich, Germany after graduating. With Hitler's increasing power, they emigrated to the United States in 1939. Werth found employment illustrating a Sunday column in the New York Times magazine. He began drawing political cartoons for a wide number of U.S. magazines with a political bent once the U.S. became involved in World War II. After the war Werth began to illustrate children’s books.
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"The Witch of Hissing Hill" by Mary Calhoun, illustrated by Janet McCaffery (1964)

JANET MCCAFFERY received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Philadelphia College of Art. She was a versatile illustrator of children's books, with a particular affinity for illustrating titles featuring magical and wondrous creatures, such a witches, wizards, goblins and elves. McCaffery had a close partnership with the author Mary Calhoun between 1964 to 1973, illustrating nine of her books. She also illustrated books by Doris Lund, Jan Wahl, Lee Bennett Hopkins, James Still, Cynthia Basil, and Eleanor Coerr. The Swamp Witch, written and illustrated by McCaffery, was selected by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the best designed children's books for 1970.
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