Lisl Weil
Lisl Marx-Randolph
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.
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Wolferl
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Let's go to the library
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Let's go to the museum
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Let's go to the circus
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New clothes
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Santa Claus around the world
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Pandora's box
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Of witches and monsters and wondrous creatures
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The boy who flew too near the sun
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To sail a ship of treasures
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Erica and her Sister's Dinosaur
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I, Christopher Columbus
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Our world to you with love
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The Foolish King
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The foolish king
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When animals had fire
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The riddle monster
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Mother Goose picture riddles
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The riddle monster
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The story of the Wise Men and the Child
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Un Singe Trouble-Fete
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Esther
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Owl and other scrambles
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Gertie and Gus
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Wolferl
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Let's go to the library
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Let's go to the museum
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Let's go to the circus
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New clothes
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Santa Claus around the world
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Pandora's box
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Of witches and monsters and wondrous creatures
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The boy who flew too near the sun
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To sail a ship of treasures
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Erica and her Sister's Dinosaur
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I, Christopher Columbus
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Our world to you with love
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The Foolish King
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The foolish king
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When animals had fire
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The riddle monster
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Mother Goose picture riddles
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The riddle monster
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The story of the Wise Men and the Child
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Un Singe Trouble-Fete
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Esther
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Owl and other scrambles
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Gertie and Gus