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 The Horn Book Magazine . It also has been collected by various museums and has been exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago. In...See more

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 The 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 Big Bad Wolf Get His Comeuppance is the second book in the trilogy. See less