Among his well-known books are Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveller (2004)[1] and Ten Sly Piranhas (1993).
Wise received a Bachelor’s Degree from Yale University in 1948 and published his first children’s book, Jonathan Blake: The Life and Times of a Very Young Man, in 1956.
In addition to storybooks, Wise also published an abundance of children’s nonfiction, including In the Time of the Dinosaurs (1963), Monsters from Outer Space?
(1978), and Zany Zoo (2006), as well as several biographies of important historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Alexander Hamilton, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Booker T. Washington.
[2] In 1980, Wise published The Amazon Factor, an installation of Harlequin’s “Raven House” mystery series.