The Taxi that Hurried

Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company (50th Anniversary Edition, #312-29, R/Revised, 1992). A Little Golden Book with gold foil spine. Clean and unmarked, with a square, tight spine. Pages bright white. Covers bright; lightly scuffed. Wonderfully illustrated by Tibor Gerely. (MF)

ABOUT THE BOOK: THE TAXI THAT HURRIED was written by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Irma Simonton Black and Jessie Stanton with illustrations by Tibor Gergely, and originally published by Golden Press in New York, New York, in 1946. This edition celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Little Golden Books.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: Born in Budapest, Hungary into a middle-class Jewish family, Tibor Gergely (1900-1978) was captivated by art and culture at a young age. Known as a graphic illustrator and a caricature artist, Gergely's early works documented Jewish life before the rise of Hitler. By 1939 the political situation in Europe was dire, and Gergely and his wife immigrated to America. They settled in New York and his love affair with the city never waned. He was enchanted with his new life in a postwar New York that included skyscrapers, rushing traffic and the excitement of life in the big city. A member of the American Artists and Writers Guild, Gergely became a prominent illustrator for Little Golden Books, providing drawings for more than seventy books, including Tootle, Five Little Firemen, and Scuffy the Tugboat. His illustrations for The Taxi that Hurried and Make Way for the Thruway portray the celebrated automobile and the expanding highway system, both destined to bring dramatic social and cultural changes to American life. Smithsonian National Museum of American History