Seymour Chwast

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Limerickricks

  • Sam's Bar

  • The Twelve Circus Rings

  • Alphabet Parade

  • Traffic Jam

    Babs and her kitten are crossing the road and all traffic comes to a halt! Fire trucks can't get through, the school bus, much to the delight of its passengers, is stopped dead, commuters are late for their trains, groceries are spoiling, and everyon...

  • Moon Ride

    What do you do when the moon comes to your window and offers to take you on a night ride? You say yes, of course! And so begins a night of surprising travel, seated on the back of the full moon. The simple, quietly humorous text offers sound advice t...

  • Ode to Humpty Dumpty

    Did you ever wonder what happened after Humpty Dumpty’s “great fall”? Well, it seems that after the failure of the king’s horses and men, the grief-stricken king enlists the help of the community to try to piece the egghead back together. But...

  • Harry, I Need You!

    It’s morning, and Harry, like many of us, would like to stay in bed just a few minutes longer. But this morning, Harry’s mother wants him to come down to the kitchen right away -- she has a surprise for him. But what could it be? Fairy-tale break...

  • Had Gadya: A Passover Song

    Every Passover Seder ends with a rousing version of Had Gadya, the most loved Passover song. Noted graphic artist Seymour Chwast creates a visual story-within-a-story, in a timeless village where everyone is busy preparing for the holiday. With an ...



  • Harry's Bath

    With bright, fanciful art by the award-winning illustrator Seymour Chwast, this tale is a pure delight. It's bathtime--but Is Harry wet yet? Oh no. There's no room in the tub, because a witch, dinosaur, cow, bear, and a big blue dog have all gone in ...

  • Bobo's Smile

    What's a clown to do when the circus shuts down and he loses the ability to smile? In Bobo's Smile, author and illustrator Seymour Chwast traces a clown's quest to regain happiness. Bobo flies around the world, visits new lands, scales mountains, and...

  • Get Dressed!

    Seymour Chwast celebrates the daily routine of getting dressed in this fittingly whimsical and satisfyingly unique novelty book. Unlike more traditional books on this topic that deal with the how of getting dressed, Get Dressed! instead tackles the w...

  • The Odyssey

    Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has delighted audiences with his adaptations of "The Divine Comedy" and "The Canterbury Tales." Now he turns to Homer's "Odyssey", one of the best-known stories in history. The tale is one that beg...

  • Tall City, Wide Country

    Tall City, Wide Country invites young readers to pack their bags for a journey from a rural environment to an urban landscape. Enjoy panoramic illustrations of broad cows, expansive sunshine, and seemingly endless horizons . then turn the book sidewa...

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has delighted audiences with his adaptations of "The Divine Comedy," "The Canterbury Tales," and "The Odyssey," but it is in Mark Twain’s "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court" that he h...

  • The Canterbury Tales

    Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way -- on motorcycles, of course -- to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an...

  • Dante's Divine Comedy

    The "left-handed designer," Seymour Chwast has been putting his unparalleled take-and influence-on the world of illustration and design for the last half century. In his version of Dante's Divine Comedy, Chwast's first graphic novel, ...

  • The Pancake King

    Henry Edgewood loves making pancakes. He makes them every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and everyone in town knows his are the best. But when fame and fortune knock on the door, in the form of a TV appearance and an invitation to the White Ho...

  • At War with War: 5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, An Illustrated Timeline

    At War with War visualizes humanity's 5,000-year-long state of conflict, chaos, and violence on a continuous timeline. Seventy pages of stark black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and woodcuts illustrate history's most notorious battles -- from 3300 B...



  • The JICKLE and Other Curious Pets

    "So you nice people would like a pet But not the kind like all the rest. I'll tell you about those that I could get; They may be strange but they are the best."...

  • Arno and the Mini-Machine

    A prescient and humorous tale of a boy's futuristic life gone haywire with the interruption of ... nature.GO BACK TO YOUR CLASS, says the MiniMachine.The brightly moving thing flutters into Arno's hand. It feels warm. Attached to a foot is a label, r...

  • The Mighty Elvis: A Graphic Biography

    Revel in this commemoration of Elvis' life in the form of an art book told through the unique vision of legendary designer and illustrator Seymour Chwast.

    Spearheading a new music form that, combined with an attitude and a look, would change t...

  • Where's My Cat?

    With bright, whimsical art, this humorous guessing game and visual puzzle from a legendary graphic designer will delight design fans of all ages.Is that a table--or a cow? You won't believe your eyes as this humorous guessing game and visual puzzle f...

  • Find Your A

    These wacky and witty visual puzzles by legendary and award-winning graphic designer Seymour Chwast will have everyone speechless with delight!Chwast, the artist and co-founder of the infamous Pushpin Studios, had an enormous influence on design and ...

  • Mistakes

    A clever and quirky puzzle book from the legendary graphic designer is a blast for kids and caregivers.With every page of colorful, original illustration, MistakEs invites young readers to spot what’s not right. Whose feet are sticking out of the b...

  • Find a Friend

    Making friends has never been so adventurous as in this hilarious tall tale from design legend Seymour Chwast!How far would you travel to find a friend? Whether you go to the South Pole to party with penguins, to the moon to have lunch with an astron...

  • Going Home

    Getting lost is a matter of perspective in this clever picture book about a dog making his way home -- with help from new friends -- after a gust of wind blows him halfway across the world!In this charmingly illustrated picture book for ages 3 to 6, ...

  • Hell: The People and Places

    A descent into discovering different versions of hell and its realms of torture around the world across literature, religions, culture, and folklore, gorgeously illustrated and accompanied by writing on the origins and details of each hell.Whether it...

  • Mark Twain's War Prayer

    Mark Twain’s lambasting of phony, war-mongering patriotism reinterpreted by one of our finest contemporary illustrators. Written in 1910 in his 70th year, Mark Twain, having lived through 14 wars waged just by his own country on others, decline...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Seymour Chwast has published 29 books.

The next book by Seymour Chwast, Mark Twain's War Prayer, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Seymour Chwast, Limerickricks, was published in January 1972.

No. Seymour Chwast does not write books in series.
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