Charles Geer

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Charles Geer is an American illustrator and author. He grew up on Long Island, New York, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and then served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Following the war he attended art school at the Pratt Institute.

Geer has illustrated many children’s books and has written and illustrated two of his own. He has also designed numerous book jackets.

Many of the buildings in his illustrations feature Second Empire architecture, with their characteristic Mansard roofs.

The illustrator lives in Maine, where he enjoys sailing and painting watercolors. Over the years he has built several boats.

[edit] Books illustrated by Charles Geer

• The Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Big Kerplop, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Big Chunk of Ice, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald, by Clifford B. Hicks
• Miss Pickerell and the War of the Computers, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the Lost World, by Dora F. Pantell
• Wild Geese Flying, by Cornelia Meigs
• McNulty's Holiday, by Rutherford Montgomery
• Sauncey and Mr. King’s Gallery, by Clara Ann Simmons
• The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew, by Rebecca C. Jones, 1988
• The Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Arthur J. Beckhard, 1956 ^[1]

[edit] Books authored by Charles Geer

• Dexter and the Deer Lake Mystery (1965)
• Soot Devil (1971)
• The Pipe Organ in the Parlour (also by Lilla Stirling, 1960)

[edit] References

The Pipe Organ in the Parlour by Lilla Stirling 1960