Lisl Weil
Personal Information
Description
Lisl Weil was born in Vienna, Austria. She attended school there, and acquired a love of drawing and of music. At age sixteen she was attending art school her drawings were being published regularly in a Viennese newspaper, and she was performing with a dance group. In 1938 she spent a year in Holland, and then in 1939 she moved to New York City and worked as an artist and illustrator. In 1946, she illustrated her first children's book, Doll House by Marion Moss. Throughout her long career, Lisl Weil illustrated more than a hundred children's books, many of them her own stories. Weil also performed with symphony orchestras by dancing and drawing on a huge easel as the orchestra played music. She also had a weekly television show called "Children's Sketch Book" from 1963-1964.
Books
New clothes
Discusses the reasons why people wear clothes and chronicles the different styles of clothing worn by Americans and Europeans over the years.
Melissa's friend Fabrizzio
The last day of her vacation in Venice is full of romantic adventure for a little girl trying to stay clean and be good.
The houses we build
Surveys the variety of shelters made by Western man, starting with the first move from caves to tents and huts and showing the distinct style of building developed by each successive civilization.
The busiest boy in Holland
Toontje and his brothers take a trip to Amsterdam where they help their uncle with the annual tulip parade, and make a float of their own.
Things that go bang
Describes the various types of percussion instruments, the sounds they make, how they are played, and their importance in an orchestra.
The wiggler
Feeling he is a frog fit for a princess, Filip goes in search of one and is disappointed again and again.
Gillie and the flattering fox
A vain cock is rescued once from the clutches of a flattering and hungry fox, but can he be saved from the same mistake a second time?
Master of all masters
Her new employer teaches a servant girl unusual names for familiar things.
Our world to you with love
Presents a brief history of the world and the United States.
Owl and other scrambles
Includes picture words for each letter of the alphabet which are partially composed of the letters that spell the name of the item when unscrambled.
Wolferl
A portrait of the great composer as a child prodigy who astounded the courts of Europe with his musical genius.
Let's go to the library
Discusses the history of libraries, the effects of the invention of the printing press on them, what goes on in libraries, and some prominent libraries of the world.
To sail a ship of treasures
Author Lisl Weil recalls the pleasures and sorrows of her own childhood in Vienna, and invites the reader to treasure the memories of life, whether it has been a long or a short one.
Eyes so-o big
"Set in a Portugese coastal village, this is a story about a fish and all the [adventures and] good things that happen to Isabel, Clara, and to the rest of the village because of the fish."
Donkey head
Text and illustrations retell the adventures of Bottom, Titania, Oberon, Puck, and other characters from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
If eggs had legs
Includes verses that are riddles, stories, counting rhymes, and puzzles.
Let's go to the museum
Explores different types of museums, tracing their development from private collections to public exhibits and describing directors, curators, trustees, conservators, public relations people, and others who keep a museum running smoothly.
The riddle monster
A horrible monster who eats anyone unable to answer its riddle is given its just reward by a thoughtful prince.