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 slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to ...
'', '' Arabian Nights'', '' Alice in Wonderland'', ''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. ''A Christmas C ...
'', ''Gulliver's Travels
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'', ''Tanglewood Tales
''Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls'' (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to ''A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys''. It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children.
Overview
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'' (1913), and others.
Background
Winter was born in Princeton, Illinois
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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
The filmstrip is a form of still image instructional multimedia, once commonly used by educators in primary and secondary schools (K-12), overtaken at the end of the 1980s by newer and increasingly lower-cost full-motion videocassettes and la ...
division of Silver Burdett Company.
Gallery
Image:The Lion and the Mouse - Project Gutenberg etext 19994.jpg, ''The Lion and the Mouse
The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 150 in the Perry Index. There are also Eastern variants of the story, all of which demonstrate mutual dependence regardless of size or status. In the Renaissance the fable was provided w ...
'', illustrated by Milo Winter in ''The Æsop for Children'', 1919 Aesop
Aesop ( or ; , ; c. 620–564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as ''Aesop's Fables''. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales cre ...
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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