Arthur Geisert

Award-winning children's book author Arthur Geisert has been creating etchings and hand-coloring them for picture books for over forty years. Geisert, who grew up in Los Angeles and learned to etch at the Otis Art Institute, has spent his entire adult life in the Midwest. He now lives on Main Street in Elkader, Iowa. Geisert's work has appeared in the New Yorker and Horn Book Magazine. It also has been collected by various museums and has been exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago. In 2010, his book Ice was selected as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book, the third book on the list for Geisert. In recent years, he has published The Giant Seed, Thunderstorm, and Pumpkin Island, the first book in his trilogy about Clayton County, Iowa. The Day the Big Bad Wolf Got His Comeuppance is the second book in the trilogy.

Arthur Geisert's Titles

Trolls of the Turkey River

The Trolls of the Turkey River

Legendary illustrator Arthur Geisert returns with the final installment in his Clayton County trilogythis time imagining how the Turkey River...


How the Big Bad Wolf Got His Comeuppance

How the Big Bad Wolf Got His Comeuppance

When the Big Bad Wolf goes after three little pigs in Iowa, he's ill-prepared for their inventiveness and can-do spirit!


Thunderstorm

Thunderstorm

A midwestern summer thunderstorm as seen through the eyes of artist/etcher Arthur Geisert, and depicted in unprecedented detail, beautifully...


Pumpkin Island

Pumpkin Island

Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert’s Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins....


Thunderstorm

Thunderstorm

This collector's edition is a beautifully-produced concertina volume, bound in cloth, numbered, and with a letterpress bookplate signed by Geisert....