Best Selling Books by Arthur Geisert

Seven piglets cavort through a landscape of hidden letters as they build a treehouse.

For Thanksgiving Day, the fourteen pigs in the Jambonneau family trim their trees to look like turkeys, but wake up one morning to find they have all been stolen.

Oops! One morning, while a pig family was sitting down to breakfast, a little milk spills to the floor. That shouldn’t be any problem at all! And it wouldn’t, except that the milk seeps through a crack in the floor and drips down to the workshop below onto a tray that tips and flips the switch on the grinder whose spinning wheel catches the loose end of a clothesline which gets wound around the leg of a table saw . . . and that is just the beginning of a series of chain reactions that lead from a little spill on the table to a giant boulder in the breakfast room! With each disastrous step depicted as only Arthur Geisert could, a seemingly ordinary incident spills out of control. They say you shouldn''t cry over spilled milk, but what if it destroys your whole house?

Descended from Spanish pirates, the Pigaroons, like their pilfering ancestors before them, stole stuff. One night they steal a crystal-clear block of ice from their neighbors the River Patrollers, who had intended to carve it for entry in the annual ice festival sculpture contest. When the River Patrollers awake to discover the Pigaroons have taken their block of ice, they decide that enough is enough, and they set about devising a plan . . . Arthur Geisert’s etchings will delight readers with their beautiful colors and intricate details in this celebration of another triumph for creative ingenuity.

Young readers can join in the search for clues along with a little piglet, who discovers that large sections of a museum''s paintings have been replaced with forgeries. Full color.

When their mother falls asleep, the baby pigs sneak away, get into big trouble, and must be rescued.

Mama and Papa are firm: lights out at eight o’clock. But their little piglet is afraid of the dark. They say, “If you can figure something out, go ahead.” So the piglet devises an ingenious series of contraptions that allow him to obey his parents while still keeping the light on long enough to fall asleep. Dominoes, tricycles, bowling balls, and baseball bats play a part as each action and reaction leads gradually to the final tug on the lamp’s switch. Follow Arthur Geisert’s detailed etchings as they reveal each step of kinetic wonder leading gradually to lights out.

On today''s farm, B is for barn cat...E is for erosion...G is for grinding feed, and I is for...inoculate? In 26 beautifully detailed spreads, acclaimed illustrator Arthur Geisert takes readers on a literal journey following a real road in Iowa (County Road Y31) through the ins and outs of America''s farmland. This isn''t your grandfather''s farm book. It still features pigs, hay, and other familiar farm residents, but you''ll see a very different kind of quicksand and traffic jam here...Along the bottom of each page is a continuous panorama that totals nearly forty feet of art. Country Road ABC is a unique and funny look at America''s present-day farmland.

It’s bath time! All the little piggies have had lots of fun playing, and now they’re dirty, muddy, and covered in paint. But their mamas aren’t worried—they have just the machine to turn this Herculean task into an adventure. Anyone who has ever been captivated by the swaying brushes and spinning jets of soap and water at the car wash will be in hog heaven as Arthur Geisert’s intricate etchings reveal the inner workings of an enormous contraption that can lather and scrub a whole farm full of dirty little piglets in no time at all—and that’s not just a bunch of hogwash!

Ten pigs go on an adventurous quest. The reader is asked to find all ten of them, and the numerals from zero to nine, in each picture.

As a young boy helps prepare etchings for sale at his grandfather''s studio, he imagines himself as part of some of the pictures. Includes a description of how etchings are made.

Rumpus Ridge, Wisconsin, is proud to have the biggest ball of string in the world, so when they lose their treasure to a nearby town they devise a clever plan to get it back.

With a farm of pigs as his abacus, Arthur Geisert uses elements of a search and count game to bring Roman numerals to life in this unintimidating math-concept book. First, the seven Roman numerals are equated with the correct number of piglets. Then the reader may practice counting other items—hot-air balloons, gopher holes, and more—as the remarkable adventure unfolds. (And yes, there are one thousand pigs in the etching for M!)

Describes, in brief text and illustrations, a year in the life of a river bank town and the many changes that occur throughout the seasons.

Describes a year in the life of a prairie town including the effect of seasons and of economics on the ebb and flow of this agricultural community.

How does a small town in Iowa deal with an abundance of pumpkins, just as Halloween approaches?

See how a community of pigs makes ingenious use of a giant dandelion seed, just as an erupting volcano threatens their island.

Retells the familiar Bible story, using etchings as illustrations, and vividly depicting life inside the ark.

Presents an illustrated account of a storm that moves through a Midwestern farming region over the course of several hours that is documented by a timeline and images of atmospheric changes and human response.

This wordless tale depicts a pig community''s hunt for ice in the Arctic when the weather on their island becomes too hot for them to bear.

The sequel to The Ark takes us back to the period afterood. Beautiful full-color etchings trace the establishment and development of communities on Earth. The scenes alternate between panoramic views and details of the people and animals as they rehabitate the world.

Describes a year in the present-day life of a mountain town that was founded when prospectors searching for gold arrived in the Rocky Mountains in the mid-nineteenth century.

Introduces Roman numerals, and by counting pigs in the illustrations the reader can reinforce the mathematical concept.

A pig family take their new balloon for a ride, race it, and eventually fly it over the North Pole.

During a great snowfall Farmer Hansen and his son go looking for his cow and her new calf.