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Blanche Fisher Wright

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Blanche Fisher Wright illustration from the 1913 The Goody-Naughty Book

Blanche Fisher Wright Laite[1] (1887[citation needed] – 1971[citation needed]) was an American children's book illustrator active in the 1910s.[2] She is best known for illustrating The Real Mother Goose, published in 1916 by Rand McNally.

She married actor Charles Laite [fr] and in 1925 they fostered Gordon Laite who became a children's book illustrator in the 1960s and 1970s.[2]

Illustrated Works

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  • The Goody-Naughty Book, by Sarah Cory Rippey (Rand McNally, 1913)
  • The Real Mother Goose (Rand McNally & Co., 1916)
  • The Natural Method Readers: A Second Reader, by Hannah T. McManus and John H. Haaren (C. Scribner's Sons, 1915)
  • The Natural Method Readers: A Third Reader, by Hannah T. McManus and John H. Haaren (C. Scribner's Sons, 1916)
  • The Natural Method Readers: A Fourth Reader, by Hannah T. McManus and John H. Haaren (C. Scribner's Sons, 1917)
  • The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes, by Leroy F. Jackson (Rand McNally & Co, 1918)
  • Tommy Snooks and Other Mother Goose Rhymes (Rand McNally & Co., c. 1916)

As Blanche Fisher Laite

  • Everychild: A Story Which the Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old, by Louis Dodge (C. Scribner's Sons, 1921)
  • A Journey to Health Land, by J. Mace Andress and Annie Turner Andress (Ginn & Co., 1924)

References

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  1. Field, Walter Taylor (1928). A Guide to Literature for Children. Ginn. p. 23. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 Waldrep, Mary Carolyn (2012). "Blanche Fisher Wright". Women Illustrators of the Golden Age. Courier Corp. pp. 103–108. ISBN 9780486131887. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
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