"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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