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'''Fritz Wegner''' (15 September 1924 - 15 March 2015) was an [[Austria]]n-born [[illustrator]], resident in the United Kingdom from 1938.
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'''Fritz Wegner''' (15 September 1924 – 15 March 2015) was an Austrian-born illustrator, resident in the United Kingdom from 1938.


==Early life and exile==
Fritz Wegner was born in Vienna on September 15, 1924 into a family of assimilated Jews. Following the Anschluss, a drawing he made of Adolf Hitler to amuse his classmates enraged a Nazi-supporting teacher at his school. As a result he suffered a terrible beating. His parents arranged for the 13-year old Fritz to leave Austria, alone, in August 1938 for London.
Fritz Wegner was born in Vienna on 15 September 1924 into a family of assimilated Jews. Following the [[Anschluss]], a drawing he made of Adolf Hitler to amuse his classmates enraged a Nazi-supporting teacher at his school. As a result, he suffered a terrible beating. His parents arranged for the 13-year-old Fritz to leave Austria, alone, in August 1938 for London. They and his sister were later able to join him in exile.<ref name="Guardian Obituary 25 April 2015"/>


==Education==
On the strength of a sketch of a man drawn from memory, he was offered a scholarship to [[St Martin’s School of Art]] at the age of 14, together with accommodation in Hampstead Garden Suburb with the family of one of his tutors, George Mansell, who also taught him English. Wegner paid his way by helping in Mansell’s studio.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11511401/Fritz-Wegner-illustrator-obituary.html | Telegraph obituary, 3 April 2015</ref>
On the strength of a sketch of a man drawn from memory, he was offered a scholarship to [[St Martin's School of Art]] at the age of 14, together with accommodation in [[Hampstead Garden Suburb]] with the family of one of his tutors, George Mansell, who also taught him English. Wegner paid his way by helping in Mansell's studio.<ref name="Daily Telegraph Obituary 3 April 2015">{{cite web | title=Fritz Wegner, illustrator – obituary |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11511401/Fritz-Wegner-illustrator-obituary.html| author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | date=3 April 2015| website= The Daily Telegraph | accessdate=1 May 2015}}</ref>


As Wegner recalled in an interview: “It was an extremely generous thing to do and indeed I lived with them for several years, learning everything I later knew about lettering, penmanship, gilding and the Roman alphabet. That was the start of an early passion, after which I moved on to doing illustrations.” <ref>http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/24/fritz-wegner | Guardian 24 March 2015</ref>
As Wegner recalled in an interview: “It was an extremely generous thing to do and indeed I lived with them for several years, learning everything I later knew about lettering, penmanship, gilding and the Roman alphabet. That was the start of an early passion, after which I moved on to doing illustrations.”<ref name="Guardian Obituary 25 April 2015">{{cite news |last=Powers |first=Alan |title=Fritz Wegner |url= https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/24/fritz-wegner| date= 25 April 2015|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London| page= 52|accessdate=1 May 2015}}</ref> He studied at St. Martins School of Art from 1939 to 1942.


==Career==
He studied at St. Martins School of Art from 1939 to 1942. In 1942 he was classified as a “friendly enemy alien” and assigned to war work on the land in Buckinghamshire, gaining further education from his co-workers, mostly conscientious objectors. He also managed to obtain an appointment as poster artist for the Buckinghamshire War Agricultural Committee. While living in Buckinghamshire he met the journalist Janet Barber, who was living in a nearby village and they were married two years later .<ref>Guardian obituary</ref> He also submitted cartoons to the Evening Star and later became a lodger in London with the editor of the paper’s diary column. Establishing himself in London after the war he became a freelance graphic artist.<ref>Telegraph obituary</ref>
In 1942 he was classified as a "friendly enemy alien" and assigned to war work on the land in Buckinghamshire, gaining further education from his co-workers, mostly conscientious objectors. He also managed to obtain an appointment as a poster artist for the Buckinghamshire War Agricultural Committee. While living in Buckinghamshire he met the journalist Janet Barber, who was living in a nearby village and they were married two years later.<ref name="Guardian Obituary 25 April 2015"/> He also submitted cartoons to the Evening Star and later became a lodger in London with the editor of the paper's diary column. Establishing himself in London after the war he became a freelance graphic artist.<ref name="Daily Telegraph Obituary 3 April 2015"/>


Wegner began his long career as a freelance illustrator by working for [[Liliput magazine]] and drawing book jackets for a range of publishers.<ref>Guardian obituary</ref> [[Hamish Hamilton]] was the first publishing house to launch him as an illustrator. During a long relationship with the company he worked on book covers and jackets for adult and children’s books, and illustrations for a wide range of children’s books.<ref>Telegraph obituary</ref> He drew the covers for the English editions of [[The Catcher in the Rye]] (1951) and [[Raymond Chandler]]’s The Long Goodbye. He illustrated religious works by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] such as The Story of Noah’s Ark (1956), The Story of Adam and Christ (1953) and The Days of Christ’s Coming, (1960) in a slightly medieval style.<ref>Guardian obituary</ref>
Wegner began his long career as a freelance illustrator by working for the magazine ''[[Lilliput (magazine)|Lilliput]]'' and drawing book jackets for a range of publishers.<ref name="Guardian Obituary 25 April 2015"/> [[Hamish Hamilton]] was the first publishing house to launch him as an illustrator. During a long relationship with the company he worked on book covers and jackets for adult and children's books, and illustrations for a wide range of children's books.<ref name="Daily Telegraph Obituary 3 April 2015"/> He drew the covers for the English editions of ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' (1951) and [[Raymond Chandler]]'s ''[[The Long Goodbye (novel)|The Long Goodbye]]''. He illustrated religious works by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] such as ''The Story of Noah's Ark'' (1956), ''The Story of Adam and Christ'' (1953), and ''The Days of Christ's Coming'', (1960) in a slightly medieval style.<ref name="Guardian Obituary 25 April 2015"/> Some of his illustrations for [[Mordecai Richler]]'s ''[[Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (book)|Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang]]'' (1975) riff off and rework [[George Cruikshank]]'s illustrations for ''[[Oliver Twist]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gibson |first1=Brian |title="Please, sir, I want some more . . . . Please, sir . . . I want some more": Unhooding Richler's Fang to Find Justice for Oliver Twist and Jacob Two-Two |url=http://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/64 |journal=Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures |date=21 September 2010 |volume=2 |issue=2 |accessdate=14 November 2018}}</ref>


Working constantly to support a family of three children, Wegner undertook a range of illustration work for John Bull, Puffin Annual, Radio Times, Farmers' Weekly, Everywoman, Woman and Beauty, including stamps for Christmas <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectgbstamps.co.uk/explore/issues/?issue=100|title=Christmas stamps, 1969}}</ref> and other festivities and, from 1973, a string of drawings for the American children’s magazine, Cricket, which featured running commentary by insect characters.<ref>Guardian obituary</ref>
Working constantly to support a family of three children, Wegner undertook a range of illustration work for [[John Bull (magazine)|John Bull]], Puffin Annual, ''[[Radio Times]]'', ''[[Farmers Weekly]]'', ''Everywoman'', ''Woman, and Beauty'', as well as postage stamps for Christmas<ref name="Collect GB Stamps">{{cite web|url= http://www.collectgbstamps.co.uk/explore/issues/?issue=100| title= Christmas stamps, 1969| author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | publisher= collectgbstamps.co.uk| accessdate= 1 May 2015 }}</ref> and other festivities and, from 1973, a string of drawings for the American children's magazine, ''[[Cricket (magazine)|Cricket]]'', which featured running commentary by insect characters.<ref name="Guardian Obituary 25 April 2015"/>


His work is noted for its historical detail and gentle irreverent humour. One if his most reprinted works is his illustrations for Fattipuffs and Thinnifers: “It gave me the opportunity to test my invention and humour, the two ingredients I most wanted to bring to my drawings”.<ref>“Eulenspiegel to Owlyglass: The Impact of the Work of the Exiled Illustrators and Fritz Wegner on British Children’s Literature”, Gillian Lathey in ‘Refugees from the Third Reich’, ed. Anthony Grenville, 2002, p109</ref>
His work is noted for its historical detail and gentle irreverent humour. One of his most reprinted works is his illustrations for [[Fattypuffs and Thinifers]]: “It gave me the opportunity to test my invention and humour, the two ingredients I most wanted to bring to my drawings”.<ref name="Eulenspiegel to Owlyglass">{{cite book| chapter= Eulenspiegel to Owlyglass: The Impact of the Work of the Exiled Illustrators and Fritz Wegner on British Children’s Literature|last= Lathey | first= Gillian |title= Refugees from the Third Reich in Britain (The Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies)| editor-last= Grenville| editor-first= Anthony | date= 2002| publisher= Editions Rodopi B.V.| isbn= 978-9042011045| page= 109}}</ref> Speaking of his creative process in an interview in 2001, Wegner told Tom Morgan-Jones: <blockquote>"My one regret is that my roughs are very often better than the finished artwork. They’re more spontaneous, they have a greater creative sparkle and you don’t have to worry too much about sizes and all the constraints you normally have to work with."<ref name="Tom Morgan-Jones Interview 2001">{{citation |last= Morgan-Jones |first=Tom |title= A Lunch with Fritz Wegner |url= http://fmillustration.typepad.com/blog/2015/04/fritz-wegner.html | date=28 April 2015|work= Frances McKay Illustration |orig-year=First published 2001 in the journal ''Line'' (No2: Children's Books), a journal on the subject of drawing and illustration from the Cambridge School of Art in Anglia Ruskin University.| accessdate=1 May 2015}}</ref></blockquote>


Wegner developed a collaborative partnership with [[Allan Ahlberg]], particularly after the death of Ahlberg’s wife Janet, his co-author and illustrator, in 1994.<ref>Telegraph obituary</ref>
Wegner developed a collaborative partnership with [[Allan Ahlberg]], particularly after the death of Ahlberg's wife Janet, his co-author and illustrator, in 1994.<ref name="Daily Telegraph Obituary 3 April 2015"/>


Wegner was a visiting lecturer at St Martin’s for 25 years from 1969. (2) He taught a younger generation of British illustrators, among them Sara Midda, [[Linda Kitson]], Patrick Benson, [[Nick Sharratt]],<ref>Telegraph obituary</ref> Glynn Boyd Harte, Nicola Bayley, [[George Hardie (artist)|George Hardie]], and Phillida Gili.<ref>Guardian obituary</ref>
Wegner was a visiting lecturer at St Martin's for 25 years from 1969. (2) He taught a younger generation of British illustrators, among them Sara Midda, [[Linda Kitson]], Patrick Benson, [[Nick Sharratt]],<ref name="Daily Telegraph Obituary 3 April 2015"/> [[Glynn Boyd Harte]], Nicola Bayley, [[George Hardie (artist)|George Hardie]], and [[Phillida Gili]].<ref name="Guardian Obituary 25 April 2015"/>


Wegner was twice shortlisted for the [[Kurt Maschler Award]] (for a “work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other”), the first time for his illustrations for Michel Rosen’s Till Owlyglass, and then for his work for Brian Alderson’s The Tale of the Turnip.<ref>Telegraph obituary</ref>
Wegner was twice shortlisted for the [[Kurt Maschler Award]] (for a "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other"), the first time for his illustrations for [[Michael Rosen]]'s ''Till Owlyglass'', and then for his work for [[Brian Alderson (children's book critic)|Brian Alderson]]'s ''The Tale of the Turnip''.<ref name="Daily Telegraph Obituary 3 April 2015"/>


==Personal life==
He died on 15 March 2015.<ref>Guardian obituary</ref>
[[File:Wegner, Fritz 2015.jpg|thumb|Grave of Fritz Wegner in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]
Wegner married Janet Barber in 1945, with whom he had a daughter and two sons. His wife and children all survived him. He spent his leisure time painting for pleasure and was a collector of books, paintings, and engravings, as well as of musical instruments and china.<ref name="Daily Telegraph Obituary 3 April 2015"/>

He died on 15 March 2015 and was buried on the eastern side of [[Highgate Cemetery]].<ref name="Guardian Obituary 25 April 2015"/>


== Bibliography ==
== Bibliography ==
*"The Cats and Rosemary" by Frank Swinnerton (1950)
*"The Cats and Rosemary" by Frank Swinnerton (1950)
*"Beginner's Luck" by Oriel Malet (1952)
*"Beginner's Luck" by Oriel Malet (1952)
*"The Story of Adam and Christ" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1953)
*"The Story of Adam and Christ" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1953)
*"Enid Blyton’s Christmas Story" (1953)
*"Enid Blyton's Christmas Story" (1953)
*"The House of the Wind" by Averil Demuth (1953)
*"The House of the Wind" by Averil Demuth (1953)
*"The funny guy" by Grace Allen Hogarth (1955)
*"The funny guy" by Grace Allen Hogarth (1955)
*"The Story of Noah’s Ark" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1956
*"The Story of Noah's Ark" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1956
*"The Impractical Chimney-Sweep" by Rosemary Anne Sisson (1956)
*"The Impractical Chimney-Sweep" by Rosemary Anne Sisson (1956)
*"The Saintmaker's Christmas Eve" by Paul Horgan (1956)
*"The Saintmaker's Christmas Eve" by Paul Horgan (1956)
*"Star Girl" by Henry Winterfeld (Translated by Kyrill Schabert) (1957)
*"Star Girl" by Henry Winterfeld (Translated by Kyrill Schabert) (1957)
*"The Days of Christ’s Coming" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1960)
*"The Days of Christ's Coming" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1960)
*"The Hamish Hamilton book of princesses" Selected by Sally Patrick Johnson (1963)
*"The Hamish Hamilton book of princesses" Selected by Sally Patrick Johnson (1963)
*"The Hamish Hamilton Book of Princes" Selected by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson (1964)
*"The Hamish Hamilton Book of Princes" Selected by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson (1964)
*"Wizards and Witches" by Frances Wilkins (1965)
*"Wizards and Witches" by Frances Wilkins (1965)
*"Mother Courage" by Hans Jacob Christoffel von GRIMMELSHAUSEN (Translated by Walter Wallich) (1965)
*"Mother Courage" by Hans Jacob Christoffel von GRIMMELSHAUSEN (Translated by Walter Wallich) (1965)
*"A third French book" by W. F. H. Whitmarsh (1965)
*"A third French book" by W. F. H. Whitmarsh (1965)
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*"Baron Munchausen's Marvellous Travels & Adventures" by Raspe R E (translated by Janet Barber) (1967)
*"Baron Munchausen's Marvellous Travels & Adventures" by Raspe R E (translated by Janet Barber) (1967)
*"The House on Fairmount" by William Mayne (1968)
*"The House on Fairmount" by William Mayne (1968)
*"Fattypuffs and Thinifers" by André Maurois (1968)
*"[[Fattypuffs and Thinifers]]" by André Maurois (1968)
*"Hullabaloo" by Barbara Willard (1969)
*"Hullabaloo" by Barbara Willard (1969)
*"The great brain" by John D. Fitzgerald (1969)
*"The great brain" by John D. Fitzgerald (1969)
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*"The tale of the turnip" by Brian Alderson (1999)
*"The tale of the turnip" by Brian Alderson (1999)
*"Friendly matches" by Allan Ahlberg (2001)
*"Friendly matches" by Allan Ahlberg (2001)
*"My Brother’s Ghost" by Allan Ahlberg (2001)
*"My Brother's Ghost" by Allan Ahlberg (2001)
*"The little cat baby" by Allan Ahlberg (2003)
*"The little cat baby" by Allan Ahlberg (2003)
*"The bucket" by Allan Ahlberg (2013)
*"The bucket" by Allan Ahlberg (2013)
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http://www.carouselguide.co.uk/pdf/24-6.pdf | Pat Thomson has the Pleasure of Meeting Mr Wegner
http://www.carouselguide.co.uk/pdf/24-6.pdf | Pat Thomson has the Pleasure of Meeting Mr Wegner


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Fritz Wegner (15 September 1924 – 15 March 2015) was an Austrian-born illustrator, resident in the United Kingdom from 1938.

Early life and exile

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Fritz Wegner was born in Vienna on 15 September 1924 into a family of assimilated Jews. Following the Anschluss, a drawing he made of Adolf Hitler to amuse his classmates enraged a Nazi-supporting teacher at his school. As a result, he suffered a terrible beating. His parents arranged for the 13-year-old Fritz to leave Austria, alone, in August 1938 for London. They and his sister were later able to join him in exile.[1]

Education

[edit]

On the strength of a sketch of a man drawn from memory, he was offered a scholarship to St Martin's School of Art at the age of 14, together with accommodation in Hampstead Garden Suburb with the family of one of his tutors, George Mansell, who also taught him English. Wegner paid his way by helping in Mansell's studio.[2]

As Wegner recalled in an interview: “It was an extremely generous thing to do and indeed I lived with them for several years, learning everything I later knew about lettering, penmanship, gilding and the Roman alphabet. That was the start of an early passion, after which I moved on to doing illustrations.”[1] He studied at St. Martins School of Art from 1939 to 1942.

Career

[edit]

In 1942 he was classified as a "friendly enemy alien" and assigned to war work on the land in Buckinghamshire, gaining further education from his co-workers, mostly conscientious objectors. He also managed to obtain an appointment as a poster artist for the Buckinghamshire War Agricultural Committee. While living in Buckinghamshire he met the journalist Janet Barber, who was living in a nearby village and they were married two years later.[1] He also submitted cartoons to the Evening Star and later became a lodger in London with the editor of the paper's diary column. Establishing himself in London after the war he became a freelance graphic artist.[2]

Wegner began his long career as a freelance illustrator by working for the magazine Lilliput and drawing book jackets for a range of publishers.[1] Hamish Hamilton was the first publishing house to launch him as an illustrator. During a long relationship with the company he worked on book covers and jackets for adult and children's books, and illustrations for a wide range of children's books.[2] He drew the covers for the English editions of The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye. He illustrated religious works by Dorothy L. Sayers such as The Story of Noah's Ark (1956), The Story of Adam and Christ (1953), and The Days of Christ's Coming, (1960) in a slightly medieval style.[1] Some of his illustrations for Mordecai Richler's Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975) riff off and rework George Cruikshank's illustrations for Oliver Twist.[3]

Working constantly to support a family of three children, Wegner undertook a range of illustration work for John Bull, Puffin Annual, Radio Times, Farmers Weekly, Everywoman, Woman, and Beauty, as well as postage stamps for Christmas[4] and other festivities and, from 1973, a string of drawings for the American children's magazine, Cricket, which featured running commentary by insect characters.[1]

His work is noted for its historical detail and gentle irreverent humour. One of his most reprinted works is his illustrations for Fattypuffs and Thinifers: “It gave me the opportunity to test my invention and humour, the two ingredients I most wanted to bring to my drawings”.[5] Speaking of his creative process in an interview in 2001, Wegner told Tom Morgan-Jones:

"My one regret is that my roughs are very often better than the finished artwork. They’re more spontaneous, they have a greater creative sparkle and you don’t have to worry too much about sizes and all the constraints you normally have to work with."[6]

Wegner developed a collaborative partnership with Allan Ahlberg, particularly after the death of Ahlberg's wife Janet, his co-author and illustrator, in 1994.[2]

Wegner was a visiting lecturer at St Martin's for 25 years from 1969. (2) He taught a younger generation of British illustrators, among them Sara Midda, Linda Kitson, Patrick Benson, Nick Sharratt,[2] Glynn Boyd Harte, Nicola Bayley, George Hardie, and Phillida Gili.[1]

Wegner was twice shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award (for a "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other"), the first time for his illustrations for Michael Rosen's Till Owlyglass, and then for his work for Brian Alderson's The Tale of the Turnip.[2]

Personal life

[edit]
Grave of Fritz Wegner in Highgate Cemetery

Wegner married Janet Barber in 1945, with whom he had a daughter and two sons. His wife and children all survived him. He spent his leisure time painting for pleasure and was a collector of books, paintings, and engravings, as well as of musical instruments and china.[2]

He died on 15 March 2015 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.[1]

Bibliography

[edit]
  • "The Cats and Rosemary" by Frank Swinnerton (1950)
  • "Beginner's Luck" by Oriel Malet (1952)
  • "The Story of Adam and Christ" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1953)
  • "Enid Blyton's Christmas Story" (1953)
  • "The House of the Wind" by Averil Demuth (1953)
  • "The funny guy" by Grace Allen Hogarth (1955)
  • "The Story of Noah's Ark" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1956
  • "The Impractical Chimney-Sweep" by Rosemary Anne Sisson (1956)
  • "The Saintmaker's Christmas Eve" by Paul Horgan (1956)
  • "Star Girl" by Henry Winterfeld (Translated by Kyrill Schabert) (1957)
  • "The Days of Christ's Coming" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1960)
  • "The Hamish Hamilton book of princesses" Selected by Sally Patrick Johnson (1963)
  • "The Hamish Hamilton Book of Princes" Selected by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson (1964)
  • "Wizards and Witches" by Frances Wilkins (1965)
  • "Mother Courage" by Hans Jacob Christoffel von GRIMMELSHAUSEN (Translated by Walter Wallich) (1965)
  • "A third French book" by W. F. H. Whitmarsh (1965)
  • "Grimm's fairy tales" by Amabel Williams-Ellis (1965)
  • "The ghost in the noonday sun" by Sid Fleischman (1966)
  • "Baron Munchausen's Marvellous Travels & Adventures" by Raspe R E (translated by Janet Barber) (1967)
  • "The House on Fairmount" by William Mayne (1968)
  • "Fattypuffs and Thinifers" by André Maurois (1968)
  • "Hullabaloo" by Barbara Willard (1969)
  • "The great brain" by John D. Fitzgerald (1969)
  • "The dribblesome teapots and other incredible stories" by Norman Hunter (1971)
  • "Jack the giant-killer" by Joseph Jacobs (1971)
  • "The strange affair of Adelaide Harris" by Leon Garfield (1971)
  • "Giant Kippernose, and other stories" by John A. Cunliffe (1972)
  • "More adventures of the Great Brain" by John D. Fitzgerald" (1972)
  • "The story of Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs" by Jacob Grimm (1973)
  • "The voyage of Jim" by Janet Barber (1973)
  • "To find a wishing well" by Hylda Lee (1973)
  • "The robin and the wren" by Ian Serraillier (1974)
  • "The home-made dragon, and other incredible stories" by Norman Hunter (1974)
  • "Jacob Two-Two meets the Hooded Fang" by Mordecai Richler (1975)
  • "Dust-up at the royal disco, and other incredible stories" by Norman Hunter (1975)
  • "More Grimm's fairy tales" by Amabel Williams-Ellis" (1976)
  • "The Champion of Merrimack County" by Roger W. Drury (1976)
  • "The pleasure garden" by Leon Garfield (1976)
  • "Carter is a Painter's cat" by Carolyn Sloan (1979)
  • "A Foreign Affair" by John Rowe Townsend (1982)
  • "Don't look now but it's Christmas again!" by Fritz Wegner (1983)
  • "Guilt and gingerbread" by Leon Garfield (1984)
  • "Please Mrs Butler" by Allan Ahlberg (1984)
  • "Woof!" by Allan Ahlberg (1986)
  • "The sneeze" by David Lloyd (1986)
  • "Master Bun the baker's boy" by Allan Ahlberg (1988)
  • "Heard it in the playground" by Allan Ahlberg (1989)
  • "Till owlyglass" by Michael Rosen (1990)
  • "Fritz Wegner's Heaven on Earth" by Fritz Wegner (1992)
  • "John Cunliffe's giant stories" by John A. Cunliffe (1994)
  • "The giant baby" by Allan Ahlberg (1994)
  • "The Better Brown stories" by Allan Ahlberg (1995)
  • "The wicked tricks of Till Owlyglass" by Michael Rosen (1997)
  • "Ms Cliff the climber" by Allan Ahlberg (1997)
  • "The tale of the turnip" by Brian Alderson (1999)
  • "Friendly matches" by Allan Ahlberg (2001)
  • "My Brother's Ghost" by Allan Ahlberg (2001)
  • "The little cat baby" by Allan Ahlberg (2003)
  • "The bucket" by Allan Ahlberg (2013)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Powers, Alan (25 April 2015). "Fritz Wegner". The Guardian. London. p. 52. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Fritz Wegner, illustrator – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  3. ^ Gibson, Brian (21 September 2010). ""Please, sir, I want some more . . . . Please, sir . . . I want some more": Unhooding Richler's Fang to Find Justice for Oliver Twist and Jacob Two-Two". Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. 2 (2). Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Christmas stamps, 1969". collectgbstamps.co.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  5. ^ Lathey, Gillian (2002). "Eulenspiegel to Owlyglass: The Impact of the Work of the Exiled Illustrators and Fritz Wegner on British Children's Literature". In Grenville, Anthony (ed.). Refugees from the Third Reich in Britain (The Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies). Editions Rodopi B.V. p. 109. ISBN 978-9042011045.
  6. ^ Morgan-Jones, Tom (28 April 2015) [First published 2001 in the journal Line (No2: Children's Books), a journal on the subject of drawing and illustration from the Cambridge School of Art in Anglia Ruskin University.], "A Lunch with Fritz Wegner", Frances McKay Illustration, retrieved 1 May 2015

http://www.carouselguide.co.uk/pdf/24-6.pdf | Pat Thomson has the Pleasure of Meeting Mr Wegner

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