Frank Dobias

Frank Dobias (1902 - ) was an illustrator of children's books. Among many other works, his illustrations for the Japanese version of Little Black Sambo made the book a bestseller in Japan, selling well over a million copies between 1953-1988.

Early life and career[]

He was born in Austria and moved to the United States around the 1920s, where he started his professional career as illustrator mostly for Macmillan Publishers books. The illustrations used in the Japanese best-seller were originally drawn for Little Black Sambo published from Macmillan in 1927.^[1]

The Macmillan 1927 version was revived from Komichi Shobo Publishing, a Japanese publisher in Tokyo, in 2008.

Selected works[]

• Bannerman, Helen. Little Black Sambo. The Happy Hour Books. Macmillan Publishers, 1927.
• . . Translated by . Macmillan Publishers, 1929.
• Morris, William. . Adapted by from Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris. Macmillan Publishers, 1932.
• Junior Bible. Macmillan Publishers, 1936.
• Cook, Canfield. Sky Attack. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1942. OCLC 4865269
• Kelsey, Alice (Geer). . Longman’s 1943.　Jeremy Schiff's Hodja homepage contains some illustrations by Frank Dobias for .
• Bannerman, Helen. Chibikuro Sambo. Komichi Shobo Publishing, 2008. (A Japanese translation of Macmillan's 1927 version.)

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