Charles Hand Geer (August 25, 1922 – December 7, 2008) was an American illustrator of children's books, two of which he wrote. He also designed numerous book jackets. 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 feature Second Empire architecture, with their characteristic mansard roofs. Geer lived until his death in 2008 in Rockland, Maine, where he enjoyed sailing and painting watercolors. Over the years he built several boats. Books illustrated Game of Statues by Anne Stevenson Schoolboy Johnson by John R. Tunis Mystery at Redtop Hill, by Marjory Schwalje, 1965 The Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley The Big Kerplop, by Bertrand R. Brinley The Big Chunk of Ice, by Bertrand R. Brinley The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald, by Clifford B. Hicks Miss Pickerell on the Moon, by Dora F. Pantell Miss Pickerell and the Weather Satellite, by Dora F. Pantell Miss Pickerell and the Blue Whales, by Dora F. Pantell Miss Pickerell and the War of the Computers, by Dora F. Pantell Miss Pickerell and the Lost World, by Dora F. Pantell Wild Geese Flying, by Cornelia Meigs That Summer With Lexy!, by Audrey McKim McNulty's Holiday, by Rutherford Montgomery Sauncey and Mr. King's Gallery, by Clara Ann Simmons The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew, by Rebecca C. Jones, 1988 The Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Arthur J. Beckhard, 1956 Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat Sandro's Battle, by David Scott Daniell, 1962 (jacket only) The Pipe Organ in the Parlour, by Lilla Stirling, 1960 Secret Under Antarctica, by Gordon R. Dickson The Secret Raft, by Hazel Krantz Plain Girl, by Virginia Sorensen Gretchen of Grand Pré, by Lilla Stirling Also listed as the cover illustrator for "The Lonely Mound," by William Campbell Gault Books authored by Charles Geer Dexter and the Deer Lake Mystery (1965) Soot Devil (1971) The Pipe Organ in the Parlour (also by Lilla Stirling, 1960) References External links Happy 85th, Charles Geer! (Illustrator, "The Mad Scientists' Club" by Bertrand Brinley) familysearch.org — U.S. Social Security Death Index for Charles H Geer https://www.facebook.com/CharlesGeerillustrator/?fref=ts American illustrators 2008 deaths 1922 births 20th-century