Richard Bennett
(1899 - 1971)
Richard Bennett (1899-1971) was a nationally known printmaker, painter, and illustrator, born in Ireland but raised in Washington State. He later divided his time between New York City and Seattle. A leading children’s book author and illustrator, he received national recognition for his woodblock prints and engravings. He was part of the inner circle of leading Northwest artists including Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson. In New York he became close to a group of artists and scholars that included the Abstract Expressionist Theodoros Stamos, etcher Thomas Handforth, and the scholar Edmond Tolk.
Among the many children’s books he illustrated are the Paul Bunyon stories, Treasure Island, and Betty MacDonald’s The Egg and I and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. David Martin places Bennett’s work in the context of major American printmakers and illustrators and the changes in book production inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Bibliography
Adventure Stories from Story Parade (1950)
A collection of stories from Story Parade magazine.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Elizabeth Janet Gray
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Elizabeth Orton Jones
Henry C. Pitz
Kurt Wiese
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Best in Children’s Books Volume 23 (1959)
An anthology containing Kintu by Elizabeth Enright with new illustrations by Bobri.
Read online at archive.org.
Rose Fyleman
Gladys Schwarcz
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Vladimir Bobritski
Feodor Rojankovsky
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Best in Children’s Books Volume 29 (1960)
A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
George MacDonald
Edith Unnerstad
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Robin Jacques
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry
Leonard Weisgard
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Best in Children’s Books Volume 33 (1960)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Grace Moon
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Richard Bennett
Richard Scarry
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The Egg and I (1945)
The creator of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle started in life as the wife of a chicken farmer in the wilds of the Olympic Peninsula.
Good Times Together (1958)
Includes Willie’s Pocket by Margaret Wise Brown with illustrations by Crockett Johnson reproduced in color. An anthology for younger children about people around the world.
Margaret Wise Brown
Kenneth Grahame
Maj Lindman
A. A. Milne
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Marjorie Flack
Crockett Johnson
Maurice Sendak
Helen Sewell
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Heroes, Outlaws and Funny Fellows of American Popular Tales (1939)
Includes stories of Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, Pecos Bill and many others.
It’s Perfectly True and Other Stories (1938)
Twenty-eight familiar tales by the Danish master.
Legends of Paul Bunyan (1947)
Paul Bunyan and Babe his great blue ox led the havesting of America's virgin forests, from Maine to Oregon.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1947)
The widow of a retired pirate keeps open house for the children of the neighborhood and supplies their mothers with magical cures for the children’s bad habits.
Story Parade (1938)
A collection of stories and poems from Story Parade magazine.
Ruth Sawyer
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Vera Bock
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Kurt Wiese
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Story Parade Gold Book (1941)
A collection of stories and poems from Story Parade Magazine.
Ruth Sawyer
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Dorothy P. Lathrop
Lois Lenski
Robert McCloskey
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Story Parade: Star Book, A Collection of Modern Stories for Boys and Girls (1944)
A collection of stories that had appeared in Story Parade Magazine.
Margery Williams Bianco
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Mabel L. Hunt
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Helen Sewell
Armstrong Sperry
Kurt Wiese
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With Cap and Bells (1937)
Sixteen humorous tales.