Sue recently illustrated Random House’s Step into Reading titles featuring the six most classic Little Golden Book characters. Born in Southern California, she attended CalArts, then worked for Disney and other studios as an animator before opening her own studio.

SUE DiCICCO is a prolific children’s book illustrator as well as a sculptor. TENNANT REDBANK (adapter) worked for many years as an editor in children’s publishing, and is a prolific author of books for children. GERTRUDE CRAMPTON (1909–1996) was a teacher who wrote the classic Little Golden Books Tootle and Scuffy the Tugboat.

Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Freshly illustrated in the style of the earlier book, which was written by Gertrude Crampton and illustrated by Tibor Gergely, this sweet tale about Tootle-and the important lesson he learns at Train School-is the perfect addition to the Step into Reading line. In this classic Little Golden Book from 1945, Tootle is a young locomotive who loves to chase butterflies through the meadow. Tootle the train, star of one of the bestselling Little Golden Books of all time, chugs into his first Step into Reading book!įans of Tootle the train will now be able to read about him all on their own! This Step 1 Step into Reading title has been adapted for early readers from the original Little Golden Book story. Buy a cheap copy of Tootle book by Gertrude Crampton. Gift of Western Publishing Company, Inc.On Sale: Sep. His portrayals of America's rapidly expanding transportation systems and the recognition of public servants foretold the dramatic social and cultural events that would impact American society in the 1950s. He was enchanted with his new life in a postwar New York that included skyscrapers, rushing traffic and the excitement of life in the big city.īy 1940 Gergely was working for the American Artists and Writers Guild and became a popular illustrator for Little Golden Books, providing drawings for more than seventy books, including illustrations for The Taxi that Hurried, Make Way for the Thruway, Five Little Firemen and Tootle.

They settled in New York and his love affair with the city never waned. By 1939 the political situation in Europe was dire, and Gergely and his wife immigrated to America. Known as a graphic illustrator and a caricature artist, Gergely’s early works documented Jewish life before the rise of Hitler. Tootle was written by Gertrude Crampton with illustrations by Tibor Gergely, published by Golden Press in New York, New York, in 1945.īorn in Budapest, Hungary into a middle-class Jewish family, Tibor Gergely (1900-1978) was captivated by art and culture at a young age.

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