William Steig

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1968
  • Latest Book:
    February 2018
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Multi-Author Series List

Shrek

Shrek! (Oct-1990)
The One and Only Shrek! (Mar-2007)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • CDB!

    N-R-E S N T-S. N-Q = Thank you. S M-T = It's empty. D N S 5 X = The hen has five eggs. It looks like a secret code, but read the letters aloud and solve the puzzle!...

  • Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

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    Sylvester can't believe his luck when he finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. But when a lion jumps out at him on his way home, Sylvester is shocked into making a wish that has unexpected consequences. After overcoming a series of obs...

  • Amos and Boris

    Amos the mouse and Boris the whale: a devoted pair of friends with nothing at all in common, except good hearts and a willingness to help their fellow mammal. They meet after Amos sets out to sea in his homemade boat, the Rodent, and soon finds hi...

  • Dominic

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    On the first page Dominic, a piccolo-playing hound dog announces to his friends that he is leaving in rather a hurry to see more of the world. And off he goes to wherever the road will take him, all five of his senses--most especially his nose--thril...

  • Farmer Palmer's Wagon Ride

    The wagon ride from town is so hazardous that Farmer Palmer, a pig, and Ebenezer, an ass, barely make it home again....

  • Real Thief

    Gawain is a loyal and true goose serving as chief guard of the royal treasury. He'd been happy enough with his life at home tending his garden and making sketches of architectural masterpieces. Now he's being charged with stealing from the treasury. ...

  • Abel's Island

    William's Steig's Abel's Island tells the story of a mouse who gets swept away from his beloved wife -- a truly timeless classic about life's simple pleasures.Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from ...

  • The Amazing Bone

    It's a bright and beautiful spring day, and Pearl, a pig, is dawdling on her way home from school. Most unexpectedly, she strikes up an acquaintance with a small bone. "You talk?" says Pearl. "In any language," says the bone. "And I can imitate an...

  • Caleb and Kate

    When Caleb finds himself transformed into a dog and is unable to tell his wife his true identity, he decides to become her companion.

    Caleb and Kate is a 1977 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Boo...



  • Tiffky Doofky

    William Steig's "Tiffky Doofky," a garbage collector for the town of Popville, has a feeling one morning that something special is going to happen, so he goes to a fortune teller. She says he will meet his true love that very day, before the sun goes...

  • Gorky Rises

    One fresh and fair summer day, as soon as his parents go out, Gorky sets up his laboratory by the kitchen sink to have another try at concocting a magic potion. This time he strikes upon the missing ingredient--half a bottle of his mother's attar ...

  • Doctor De Soto

    Doctor De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain....

  • Ruminations

  • Solomon the Rusty Nail

    Here, in the great tradition of Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and Caleb and Kate, is another
    tale of magical transformation from William Steig, the creator of Shrek.

    Its hero, young Solomon, is an ordinary rabbit--well, ordinary in eve...

  • Brave Irene

    Brave Irene is Irene Bobbin, the dressmaker's daughter. Her mother, Mrs. Bobbin, isn't feeling so well and can't possibly deliver the beautiful ball gown she's made for the duchess to wear that very evening. So plucky Irene volunteers to get the gown...

  • Yellow & Pink

    Steig’s witty dialectic on the nature of existence...

  • Roland the Minstrel Pig

    Roland the pig plays the lute and sings so sweetly that his friends never have enough of listening to him. He has bigger dreams, though, so he decides to take his show on the road and share his music with the world. He has a hard time finding an audi...

  • Spinky Sulks

    Spinky is convinced that his family hates him and goes off to sulk in his hammock. His brother and sister try to make amends. His mom even brings him a beautiful tray of food. But nothing can get Spinky to stop sulking -- not even a circus passing by...

  • Shrek!

    Shrek

    Before Shrek made it big on the silver screen, there was William Steig's SHREK!, a book about an ordinary ogre who leaves his swampy childhood home to go out and see the world. Ordinary, that is, if a foul and hideous being who ends up marrying th...



  • Our Miserable Life

    In this collection of 118 joyful drawings, William Steig depicts life's difficulties and disasters, quandaries and quagmires in an astonishing range of styles, focusing on the miseries of human relationships--hostility, frustration, embarrassment, lo...

  • Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa

    In the further adventures of the hero from the Newbery Honor-winning Doctor De Soto, the diminutive dentist is summoned by cablegram to Africa to aid Mudambo, an elephant with an unbearable toothache.

    Children's Choices for 1993 (...

  • Rotten Island

    What would happen if every creature on land and sea were free to be as rotten as possible? If every day was a free-for-all; if plants grew barbed wire; if the ocean were poison? That’s life on Rotten Island. For creatures that slither, creep, an...

  • Zeke Pippin

    Bitterly disappointed when his family falls asleep as he plays his newfound harmonica, a spirited young pig runs away'only to undergo harrowing adventures before he, with the aid of his magical sleep-inducing harmonica, can be reunited with his lo...

  • Grown-Ups Get to Do All the Driving

  • The Toy Brother

    Yorick Bede has always considered his younger brother Charles a first-rate pain in the pants, and Charles thinks the same of Yorick. One day Yorick plays with his alchemist father's potions, and he accidentally shrinks himself to the size of a cockro...

  • Toby, Where Are You?

    Toby loves hiding from his parents -- upstairs, downstairs, just about anywhere. But when Toby begins to think that his parents will never find him, he just can’t stand it. ‘Here I am!’ he cries.

    ...

  • Pete's a Pizza

    Pete's father starts kneading the dough. Next, some oil is generously applied. (Its really water.) And then some tomatoes. (They're really checkers.) When the dough gets tickled, it laughs like crazy.

    ...

  • Made for Each Other

  • Wizzil

    An exciting collaboration

    Wizzil, a witch, is bored stiff. So, with some coaxing from Beatrice, her parrot, she turns herself into a common housefly and heads over to Frimp farm to stir up trouble. Little does she know, DeWitt Frimp absolute...



  • Toby, What Are You?

    Can you guess what Toby is,

    In Toby, Where Are You? Toby led his parents in a merry game of hide-and-seek. Now he's making mischief again as a boy of many disguises. For starters, he can turn himself into a doormat or a flyswatter or a plate...

  • Which Would You Rather Be?

    Both simple and profound, Which Would You Rather Be? was celebrated author/artist William Steig′s recent triumph of humor and creativity-a charming, game-like picture book illustrated by the renowned illustrator Harry Bliss. The duo could not ha...

  • Potch and Polly

    A delightful collaboration

    Born in the company of an angel wearing a clown's nose, Potch has always woken up happy to be who and where he is. Then, when he meets Polly Pumpernickel at a masquerade ball, he does a double backflip, but it's his ...

  • CDC?

    To figure out William Steig's word puzzles you need merely read the letters, numbers, and symbols aloud. If at first the messages aren't clear, there are clever pictures accompanying each one to give you hints. Some are easy, some are hard, but all a...

  • Toby, Who Are You?

    Toby is at it again.

    When Toby and his parents go on a picnic, there's no telling who he'll pretend to be. An owl? A bat? A turtle? Can you guess?

    One thing is for sure: There's lots of fun in store for Toby ...

  • The One and Only Shrek!

    Shrek

    Before Shrek made it big on the silver screen, there was William Steig's SHREK!, a book about an ordinary ogre who leaves his swampy childhood home to go out and see the world. Ordinarily, that is, if a foul and hideous being who ends up marrying ...

  • The Zabajaba Jungle

    The Zabajaba Jungle is amazing. Its flora and fauna are like nothing ever seen before. Leonard is the first human who has ever entered the jungle, and perils lie in wait behind each bush. But he has a large knife and is brave, and with his cunning an...

  • Amos & Boris

Award-Winning Books by William Steig

Doctor De Soto
1983 National Book Award -- Pict. Bk. (Hardcover)
Gorky Rises
1980 Irma S. & James H. Black Award -- Children's Literature
Pete's a Pizza
1999 Bookseller's Choice -- Picture Book
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1970 Caldecott Medal -- Picture Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Steig has published 37 books.

William Steig does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Amos & Boris, was published in February 2018.

The first book by William Steig, CDB!, was published in June 1968.

No. William Steig does not write books in series.
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