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Hardie Gramatky

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born

April 12, 1907 in Dallas, Texas, The United States

died

April 29, 1979

gender

male

website

http://www.gramatky.com/

genre

Children's Books

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Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. was an American painter, author, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of America's 20 greatest watercolorists. He wrote and illustrated several children's books, most notably Little Toot.

Hardie Gramatky was born in Dallas, Texas, the second of three sons born to Bernhard Gramatky and Blanche Gunner Gramatky. Ten years later, following the death of his father, his mother moved the family to the Wilmar – South San Gabriel area, a then semi-rural suburb a few miles east of Los Angeles. Gramatky attended local schools in Wilmar, and then Alhambra High School in nearby Alhambra. Displaying a precocious artistic talent, he began submitting his sketches to a...more

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Books by Hardie Gramatky

Average rating: 3.87 · 460 ratings · 33 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Little Toot 3.90 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 1939 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Little Toot on the Thames 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Little Toot on the Mississippi 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Little Toot and the Loch Ness Monster 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Homer And The Circus Train 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Hercules 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1960 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sparky 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1952	My rating:
	Little Toot Through The Golden Gate 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tub Time with Little Toot 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Creeper's Jeep 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: