Gustaf Tenggren
(1896 - 1970)
Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 - April 9, 1970) was a Swedish-American illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s, in what has been called the Golden Age of American animation, when animated feature films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced.
A website devoted to his work is at http://www.gustaftenggren.com/. A review article is at the Barnboken Journal of Children’s Literature Research.
Bibliography
5 Bedtime Stories (1957)
This collection includes Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Golden Goose and Chicken Little.
Adventure Tales (1967)
This is an anthology of previously published books about pirates, prospectors, cowboys and Indians and rhymes.
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales (1935)
A selection from the master.
Bedtime Stories (1942)
This collection includes Chicken Little, The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and The Gingerbread Man. The pictures are in color and black and white. Later editions have only three stories.
Read online at archive.org.
The Big Brown Bear (1944)
The big brown bear just cannot keep away from the honey tree, even though he knows what will happen if he tries to steal some honey. This Big Golden Book was also shortened and published as a Little Golden Book.
The Big Brown Bear (1947)
Originally published as a Big Golden Book, this story of a bear who cannot stay away from a beehive has been a perennial favorite. Later editions are significantly shorter.
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1917)
This Swedish annual has been publishing fairy tales since 1907.
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Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1918)
A Swedish annual compilation of fairy tales.
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Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1919)
A Swedish annual collection of fairy tales.
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Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1920)
A Swedish annual collection of fairy tales.
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Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1921)
A Swedish annual collection of fairy tales.
Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1922)
A Swedish annual collection of fairy tales.
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Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1923)
A Swedish annual collection of fairy tales.
The cover image shown above is from the 1917 edition.
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Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1924)
A Swedish annual collection of fairy tales.
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Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1925)
A Swedish annual collection of fairy tales.
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Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1926)
A Swedish annual collection of fairy tales.
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A Boy of the Lost Crusade (1923)
Young Roland Arnot joins the Children’s Crusade to search for his father in the Holy Land. Read online at archive.org.
Bröderna Grimms sagor (1922)
A selection of Grimms’ fairy tales in Swedish published in two volumes. It was also issued in a one volume edition in German.
The Canterbury Tales (1961)
A selection of Chaucer’s tales for children, in modern English.
Children of the Moor (1927)
This is a story about a family of children during the Swedish famines of the 1860’s.