Dirk Gringhuis

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Richard H. Gringhuis (September 22, 1918 – March 1974) was an American artist and illustrator. Born in

East Lansing in 1952, he painted the Michigan Folklore Mural at the East Lansing Public Library.[2]

His books include Here Comes the Bookmobile (1952), Were-Wolves and Will-o-the-Wisps: French Tales of Mackinac Retold (1974), Lore of the Great Turtle (1970), and The Young Voyageur (1955). He illustrated three volumes in the

Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
—#4, Mystery Ranch; #5, Mike's Mystery; and #6, Blue Bay Mystery.

He illustrated The Hidden Valley of Oz in 1951.

Books written and illustrated

  • Hope Haven: a tale of a Dutch boy and girl who found a new home in America (William B. Eerdmans, 1947)
  • Tuliptime (A. Whitman, 1951)
  • Reilly & Lee
    , 1951)
  • Here Comes the Bookmobile (A. Whitman, 1952)
  • The Young Voyageur (
    McGraw-Hill
    , 1955)
  • The Eagle Pine (David McKay, 1958)
  • Rock Oil To Rockets: The Story of Petroleum in America (Macmillan Publishers, 1960)
  • Big Mac (Macmillan Publishers, 1961)
  • Saddle the Storm (
    Bobbs-Merrill
    , 1962)
  • Of Cabbages and Cattle: The Story of America's Farms (Dial Press, 1962)
  • Big Dig: a Frontier Comes to Life (Dial Press, 1962)
  • Of ships and fish and fishermen, (Our natural resources) (A. Whitman, 1963)
  • Mystery at Skull Castle (Reilly & Lee, 1964)
  • Open door to the Great Lakes (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1966)
  • In scarlet and blue: The story of military uniforms in America (Dial Press, 1966)
  • Stars on the Ceiling: the Planetarium Story (Meredith Press, 1967)
  • Giants, Dragons and Gods: Constellations and Their Folklore (Meredith Press, 1968)
  • Lore of the Great Turtle (Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1970)
  • The Great Parade: Tall Tales & True of Michigan's Past (Hillsdale Educational Publishers, 1970)
  • Indian Costume at Mackinac: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century (Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1972)
  • Were-Wolves and Will-o-the-Wisps: French Tales of Mackinac Retold (Mackinac State Historic Parks, 1974)

References

  1. ^ Who's Who in Oz, p. 277
  2. ^ ""Dirk Gringhuis mural," East Lansing Public Library web site". Archived from the original on 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2013-02-06.
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