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Famous children’s author Eric Carle dies at 91
Carle, known for writing The Very Hungry Caterpillar, died Sunday at his summer studio in Northampton, Massachusetts.
MILWAUKEE – Lois Ehlert, whose cut-and-paste shapes and vibrant hues in books like “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” make her one of the most popular preschool book illustrators of the late 20th century, has passed away. She was 86 years old.
Publisher Simon & Schuster said Ehlert died of natural causes Tuesday in Milwaukee.
In 1989’s “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom”, Ehlert created the super simple brown and green coconut palm tree and multi-colored capital letters that attempt to congregate at the top, threatening to knock it down to the ground as the text repeats, “Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room? “
The book has sold over 12 million copies, according to Simon & Schuster.
FILE IMAGE – The book “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” is presented at a White House event on April 25, 2011 in Washington, DC (Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg-Pool / Getty Images)
She mainly worked by cutting out shapes and pasting them into collages, just like the preschoolers who were her primary audience.
In 1990, she received a Caldecott Award as an author and illustrator of “Color Zoo”, which uses basic triangles, rectangles, squares and circles to create images of animals in oranges, purples. and supersaturated greens. Its only words are the names of the shapes and the creatures themselves.
Ehlert was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and graduated from the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee. She worked in graphic design before starting to illustrate children’s books in her fifties, starting with “Growing Vegetable Soup” in 1987.
His other books include “Planting a Rainbow†from 1988, “Eating the Alphabet†from 1989 and “Waiting for Wings†from 2001.
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