Milo Winter (August 7, 1888 – August 15, 1956)
[ was an American book illustrator. He created editions of '']Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Slavery in ancient Greece, slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 Before the Common Era, BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stor ...
'', ''Arabian Nights
''One Thousand and One Nights'' (, ), is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as ''The Arabian Nights'', from the first English-language edition () ...
'', ''Alice in Wonderland
''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (also known as ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English Children's literature, children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics university don, don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a ...
'', ''A Christmas Carol
''A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'', commonly known as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the ...
'', ''Gulliver's Travels
''Gulliver's Travels'', originally titled ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships'', is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clerg ...
'', '' Tanglewood Tales'' (1913), and others.
Background
Winter was born in Princeton, Illinois
Princeton is a city in and the county seat of Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,832 at the 2020 census.
Princeton is part of the Ottawa, Illinois, Ottawa Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, Micropolitan Statistic ...
and trained at Chicago's School of the Art Institute.[ Principle citation: Miller, Arthur H. "Children's Book Illustrator Milo Winter". ''Caxtonian''. Jan. 2004: 4,5.] From 1947 to 1949, he was the art editor of Childcraft books and from 1949, was the art editor in the film strip division of Silver Burdett Company.
Gallery
Image:The Lion and the Mouse - Project Gutenberg etext 19994.jpg, '' The Lion and the Mouse'', illustrated by Milo Winter in ''The Æsop for Children'', 1919 Aesop
Aesop ( ; , ; c. 620–564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greeks, Greek wikt:fabulist, fabulist and Oral storytelling, storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as ''Aesop's Fables''. Although his existence re ...
anthology
File:The Ant and the Grasshopper - Project Gutenberg etext 19994.jpg, ''The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is ...
'', illustrated by Milo Winter in ''The Æsop for Children''
File:The Fox and the Grapes - Project Gutenberg etext 19994.jpg, '' The Fox and the Grapes'', illustrated by Milo Winter in ''The Æsop for Children''
See also
* ''A Christmas Carol'' (1971 film)
References
*Peter Falk, ''Who Was Who in American Art'', 1985 ()
External links
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Milo Winter on Pinterest
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1888 births
1956 deaths
American children's book illustrators
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