Schongut, Emanuel

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Schongut, Emanuel

Personal

Male. Education: Pratt Institute, B.F.A. and M.F.A.

Addresses

Home—San Francisco, CA. E-mail—eschongut@yahoo.com.

Career

Illustrator and educator. Freelance editorial, advertising, and book illustrator; Pratt Institute, New York, NY, member of faculty for six years. Exhibitions: Work included in shows staged by Graphic Arts Guild, Communication Arts, Print magazine, and Society of Illustrators. Solo shows include at Beck Gallery and Delaware Valley Arts Alliance and Somarts Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED BOARD BOOKS

Look Kitten, Walker (London, England), 1983.

Play Kitten, Walker (London, England), 1983.

Wake Kitten, Walker (London, England), 1983.

Catch Kitten, Walker (London, England), 1983.

ILLUSTRATOR

Eileen Rosenbaum, The Kidnapers Upstairs, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1968.

Lillie D. Chaffin, John Henry McCoy, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1971.

Anne Merrick Epstein, Stone Man, Stone House, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1972.

Georgess McHargue, Elidor and the Golden Ball, Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1973.

Betty Virginia Doyle Boegehold, What the Wind Told, Parents' Magazine Press (New York, NY), 1974.

Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis, compilers, Baleful Beasts: Great Supernatural Stories of the Animal Kingdom, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New York, NY), 1974.

Seon Manley and Gog Lewis, Bewitched Beings: Phantoms, Familiars, and the Possessed in Stories from Two Centuries, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New York, NY), 1974.

Georgess McHargue, The Talking Table Mystery, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1977.

Seon Manley, The Ghost in the Far Garden, and Other Stories, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New York, NY), 1977.

Jenny Hawksworth, The Lonely Skyscraper, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1980.

Mary Stewart, A Walk in Wolf Wood: A Tale of Fantasy and Magic, Morrow (New York, NY), 1980.

Andrew Taylor, The Private Nose, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 1993.

Andrea Vlahakis, Christmas Eve Blizzard, Sylvan Dell (Mt. Pleasant, SC), 2005.

Jennifer Keats, Turtles in My Sandbox, Sylvan Dell (Mt. Pleasant, SC), 2006.

Contributor of illustrations to periodicals, including Parents, Children's Digest, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper's, Pushpin Graphic, Long Island Newsday, New York, and New York Times.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2006, review of Turtles in My Sandbox, p. 1068.

Publishers Weekly, February 1, 1993, review of The Private Nose, p. 95.

School Library Journal, March, 1993, Jeanette Larson, review of The Private Nose, p. 202.

Small Press Bookwatch, December, 2005, review of Christmas Eve Blizzard; November, 2006, review of Turtles in My Sandbox.

ONLINE

Emanuel Schongut Home Page,http://www.eschongut.com (November 15, 2007).

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