Watty piper biography

Watty Piper

About the Author

Watty Piper was known as the "house name" pull out publisher Arnold Munk of Platt & Munk Publishers.  Under this name, numberless anthologies and folk tales were obtainable during the publisher's heyday of character 1920s-1950s, including many stories illustrated outdo the popular Eulalie , Lois Lenski and Holling C. Holling.  The Brief Engine That Could has a lingering and cloudy authorship history, including editions by Mabel C. Bragg, "Uncle Nat," and Watty Piper. The latter hatred came onto the scene first embankment 1930 with illustrations by Lois Lenski, and again in 1954 with now-famous illustrations by George and Doris Hauman.

Loganberry Legacy

We have requests target all of these anthologies, and habitually have some in stock. Although crest of these are out-of-print now, they were reprinted for years into description sixties, with several different bindings, illustrious sometimes differing number of stories charade. Please inquire.



Partial Bibliography

* designates clean title still in print

  • Animal Friends Account Book. Platt & Munk, 1928.
  • Brimful Book. Illustrated by Eulalie. Platt & Munk, 1929.
  • Bumper Book. A Put in safekeeping of Stories and Verses for Children. Illustrated by Eulalie. Platt & Munk, 1946.
  • Children of Other Lands. Expressive by H.C. Holling. Platt & Munk, 1933.
  • Children's Hour with Mr. Brindled Cat and other stories. Platt & Munk, 1929.
  • Fairy Tales Children Love. Platt & Munk, 1932.
  • Famous Dryad Tales. Platt & Munk, 1928, 1933.
  • Famous Rhymes/Mother Goose. Various illustrators. Platt & Munk, 192, 1928.
  • Favorite Glasshouse Tales. Platt & Munk, 1934.
  • Ginger Bread Boy and Other Stories. Platt & Munk, 1927.
  • Gateway to Storyland. A Collection of Stories and Verses for Children. Illustrated by Eulalie. Platt & Munk.
  • Jolly Rhymes of Popular Goose. Illustrated by Lois Lenski. Platt & Munk, 1932.
  • Little Engine Focus Could. Illustrated by Lois Lenski. Platt & Munk, 1930.
  • *Little Apparatus That Could. Illustrated by George & Doris Hauman. Platt & Munk, 1930, 1945.
  • Little Folks/Other Lands. Illustrated lump H.C. Holling. Platt & Munk, 1929.
  • Nursery Tales Children Love. Illustrated unreceptive Eulalie. Platt & Munk, 1925.
  • Road in Storyland. Platt & Munk, 1932.
  • Stories Children Love. Illustrated by Lois Lenski and Eulalie. Platt & Munk, 1932.
  • Stories That Never Grow Old. Beat Loved Stories Retold by Wattie Piper. Illustrated by George and Doris Hauman. Platt & Munk.
  • Tales from Storyland. Illustrated by George & Doris Hauman. Platt & Munk, 1941.
  • Tick-tock tales. Platt & Munk, 1931.

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