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Victoria Chess

Author of Alfred's Alphabet Walk

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Ten Sly Piranhas (1993) — Illustrator — 446 copies
Ghosts!: Ghostly Tales from Folklore (1991) — Illustrator — 404 copies
Three Blind Mice (1979) — Illustrator, some editions — 252 copies
Slugs (1983) — Illustrator — 189 copies
Spider Kane and the Mystery Under the May-Apple (1992) — Illustrator — 178 copies
A Hippopotamusn't (1990) — Illustrator — 150 copies
Spider Kane and the Mystery at Jumbo Nightcrawler's (1993) — Illustrator — 149 copies
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks: A Book of Dinosaur Riddles (1979) — Illustrator — 116 copies
Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion (1987) — Illustrator — 88 copies
Tales for the Perfect Child (1866) — Illustrator — 81 copies
Good Night, Dinosaurs (1996) — Illustrator — 69 copies
Millicent the Monster (1968) — Illustrator — 68 copies
King Long Shanks (1998) — Illustrator — 68 copies
Tommy at the Grocery Store (1989) — Illustrator — 68 copies
Tikvah: Children's Book Creators Reflect on Human Rights (2001) — Contributor — 62 copies
The Beautiful Butterfly: A Folktale from Spain (2000) — Illustrator — 60 copies
Princess Gorilla and a New Kind of Water: A Mpongwe Tale (1988) — Illustrator — 58 copies
The Sheriff of Rottenshot (Mulberry Read-Alones) (1982) — Illustrator — 47 copies
Fables You Shouldn't Pay any Attention to (1978) — Illustrator — 47 copies
The Mysteries of Spider Kane (Spider Kane Mysteries) (2006) — Illustrator — 46 copies
The Little Buggers (1998) 43 copies
Rolling Harvey Down the Hill (1980) — Illustrator — 42 copies
Grim and Ghastly Goings-On (1992) — Illustrator — 37 copies
The Scaredy Cats (2003) — Illustrator — 35 copies
Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus (1971) — Illustrator — 32 copies
Teeny Tiny Tingly Tales (2001) — Illustrator — 31 copies
Twisted Witch & Other Spooky Riddles (1985) — Illustrator — 29 copies
Ridicholas Nicholas: More Animal Poems (1995) — Illustrator — 28 copies
Once Around the Block (1987) — Illustrator — 24 copies
Brenda Berman, Wedding Expert (2009) — Illustrator — 24 copies
Slither McCreep and His Brother, Joe (1992) — Illustrator — 20 copies
This for That: A Tonga Tale (1997) — Illustrator — 20 copies
The queen of Eene (1968) — Illustrator — 16 copies
The Bigness Contest (1994) — Illustrator — 16 copies
The king who could not sleep (1975) — Illustrator — 15 copies
Bugs: Poems (1976) — Illustrator — 13 copies
Which Is the Witch? (1979) — Illustrator — 11 copies
Baby Babka, the Gorgeous Genius (2004) — Illustrator — 10 copies
The Fat-Cats at Sea (1994) — Illustrator — 10 copies
Beautiful Buehla and the Zany Zoo Makeover (2006) — Illustrator — 10 copies
Cat and Dog Raise the Roof (1980) — Illustrator — 8 copies
Once upon a time is enough (1970) — Illustrator — 7 copies
King Basil's birthday, (1973) — Illustrator — 6 copies
A Little Touch of Monster (1986) — Illustrator — 6 copies
Cat and Dog Have a Contest (1980) — Illustrator — 6 copies
The Witch Mobile (1969) — Illustrator — 5 copies
A Ship in a Storm on the Way to Tarshish (1977) — Illustrator — 5 copies
In pursuit of the mous, the snaile, and the clamm;: A roving dictionary of the animal kingdom (1968) — Illustrator — 5 copies
Peacocks are Very Special (1976) — Illustrator — 5 copies
Cat and Dog and the Mixed Week (1980) — Illustrator — 4 copies
Cat and Dog Give a Party (1980) — Illustrator — 4 copies
Cat and Dog Take a Trip (1980) — Illustrator — 3 copies
The adventures of Stanley Kane (1973) — Illustrator — 3 copies
Taking Care of Melvin (1980) — Illustrator — 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1, September 1977 (1977) — Illustrator — 3 copies
Cat and Dog and the ABC's (1981) — Illustrator — 2 copies
Lost in the Store (1981) — Illustrator — 2 copies
The Animals' Peace Day (1970) — Illustrator — 2 copies
Cat and Dog have a parade (1981) — Illustrator — 1 copy
The Great Frog Swap (1981) — Illustrator — 1 copy
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, September 1980 — Illustrator — 1 copy

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Canonical name
Chess, Victoria
Birthdate
1939
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
USA
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Places of residence
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Washington, Connecticut, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
South of France
Education
Kokoschka School of Art
Boston Museum School
Occupations
Children's Book Author
Children's Book Illustrator
Short biography
Victoria Chess is an American children's author and illustrator. Born in 1939 in Chicago, and raised in Washington, Connecticut, she studied art at the Kokoschka School of Art in Salzburg, Austria and at the Boston Museum School. She has illustrated more than one hundred books for young people, including Slugs by David Greenberg, Tommy at the Grocery Store by Bill Grossman, and The Scaredy Cats by Barbara Bottner. She lives in Cambridge, MA and the south of France.

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Fletcher and Zenobia by Edward Gorey
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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Fletcher and Zenobia by Edward Gorey
Fletcher and Zenobia by Edward Gorey is a rarity in that he wrote the book but didn't illustrate it. Instead, Victoria Chess did the artwork — but still in a style that looks Gorey-ish to me.

Fletcher's a cat who has decided to live up in the branches of a large tree. Zenobia is a doll who has become stuck up there under extraordinary circumstances. Together they have parties and adventures, including eating too much ice cream with a giant caterpillar.

Although the book is out of print, a number of libraries still have a copy. If you're interested in reading it, I suggest starting there. There is also a sequel, Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus.… (more)
 
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