Charles Geer

Charles Hand Geer was an American illustrator, painter and author. He illustrated numerous books, mainly for children and young adults, and created a wide variety of cover paintings for books in many genres.
Geer grew up on Long Island, New York, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and then served in the United States Navy during World War II. Following the war he attended art school at the Pratt Institute.
Many of the buildings in his illustrations and covers featured Second Empire architecture, with their characteristic mansard roofs.
Geer lived in Rockland, Maine, until his death in 2008, where he enjoyed sailing and painting watercolors. Over the years, he built several boats.

Selected works

As illustrator

' by Anne StevensonSchoolboy Johnson by John R. TunisMystery at Redtop Hill, by Marjory Schwalje, 1965The Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. BrinleyThe New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. BrinleyThe Big Kerplop, by Bertrand R. BrinleyThe Big Chunk of Ice, by Bertrand R. BrinleyThe Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald, by Clifford B. HicksMiss Pickerell on the Moon, by Dora F. PantellMiss Pickerell and the Weather Satellite, by Dora F. PantellMiss Pickerell and the Blue Whales, by Dora F. PantellMiss Pickerell and the War of the Computers, by Dora F. PantellMiss Pickerell and the Lost World, by Dora F. PantellWild Geese Flying, by Cornelia MeigsThat Summer With Lexy!, by Audrey McKimMcNulty's Holiday, by Rutherford MontgomerySauncey and Mr. King's Gallery, by Clara Ann SimmonsThe Biggest Flag That Ever Flew, by Rebecca C. Jones, 1988

The Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Arthur J. Beckhard, 1956

' by Miriam E. Mason. Macmillan, 1957.Lost in the Barrens by Farley MowatSandro's Battle, by David Scott Daniell, 1962 The Pipe Organ in the Parlour, by Lilla Stirling, 1960Secret Under Antarctica, by Gordon R. DicksonThe Secret Raft, by Hazel KrantzPlain Girl, by Virginia SorensenGretchen of Grand Pré, by Lilla Stirling
"The Lonely Mound," by William Campbell Gault

As author

Dexter and the Deer Lake Mystery Soot Devil

''The Pipe Organ in the Parlour''