Happy 80th, Lois Ehlert! (Illustrator: "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" by Martin & Archambault, 1989)

[leno...@yahoo.com]

She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

She began illustrating books in 1961 and writing them in 1987. She has
four entries in the "Something About the Author" encyclopedia series,
plus an entry in vol. 28 of the "Children's Literature Review"
encyclopedias.

I first discovered her work via "Eating the Alphabet," which is clearly
for preschoolers - but when you get to the end, there's a description
for older readers of the backgrounds of all the fruits and vegetables!
Fun.

Her book "Color Zoo" was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1989.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/kidlit/aom/janaom.html
(Ehlert describes her work methods - there are some book descriptions
listed afterward)

http://www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/en/author_ehlert.htm
(Ehlert's favorite things)

http://www.hbook.com/2014/03/authors-illustrators/five-questions-lois-ehlert/
(short Horn Book interview from March)

https://www.google.com/search?q=lois+ehlert&biw=1280&bih=879&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=CNZfVJqfDtTGsQTwtYLQAQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ
(photos and artwork)

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#tbm=vid&q=lois+ehlert
(videos - she appears in at least one of them!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtB5iGHgNVY
(video of "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom")


WRITINGS:
SELF-ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Growing Vegetable Soup, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1987, reprinted, 2004.
Planting a Rainbow, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1988.
Color Zoo, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1989.
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1989.

Color Farm, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1990.
Feathers for Lunch, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1990.
Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1990, reprinted, Red Wagon Books (New York, NY), 2001.
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1991.
Circus, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1992.
Moon Rope: A Peruvian Folktale, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1992.
Nuts to You!, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1993, reprinted, Voyager Books (Orlando, FL), 2004.
Mole's Hill: A Woodland Tale, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1994.
Snowballs, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1995, reprinted, Red Wagon Books (New York, NY), 2001.
Under My Nose (autobiography), photographs by Carlo Ontal, Richard C. Owen (Katonah, NY), 1996.
Hands, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1997.
Cuckoo: A Mexican Folktale, translated into Spanish by Gloria de Aragon Andujar, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1997.
Top Cat, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1998.

Market Day: A Story Told with Folk Art, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2000.
Waiting for Wings, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2001.
In My World, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2002.
Pie in the Sky, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2004.
Leaf Man, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2005.
Wag a Tail, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2007.
Oodles of Animals, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2008.
Boo to You!, Beach Lane Books (New York, NY), 2009.

Lots of Spots, Beach Lane Books (New York, NY), 2010.
Rrralph, Beach Lane Books (New York, NY), 2011.

ILLUSTRATOR

Patricia M. Zens, I Like Orange, F. Watts (New York, NY), 1961.
Edward Lear, Limericks, World Publishing (Chicago, IL), 1965.
Mary L. O'Neill, What Is That Sound!, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1966.

Mannis Charosh, Mathematical Games for One or Two, Crowell (New York, NY), 1972.
Andrea Di Noto, The Great Flower Pie, Bradbury (New York, NY), 1973.
Vicki Silvers, Sing a Song of Sound, Scroll Press, 1973.
Nina Sazer, What Do You Think I Saw? A Nonsense Number Book, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1976.
Diane Wolkstein, The Visit, Knopf (New York, NY), 1977.
Jane J. Srivastava, Number Families, Crowell (New York, NY), 1979.
Richard L. Allington, Shapes and Sizes, Raintree Publishers (Oxford, England), 1979.

Bill Martin, Jr., and John Archambault, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1989, 20th anniversary edition, Beach Lane Books (New York, NY), 2009.
Gene Baer, Thump, Thump, Rat-a-tat-tat, Harper (New York, NY), 1989.

Bill Martin, Jr., and John Archambault, Words, Little Simon (New York, NY), 1993.
Sarah Weeks, Crocodile Smile: Ten Songs of the Earth as the Animals See It, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1994, 2003.
Bill Martin, Jr., and John Archambault, Chicka Chicka Sticka Sticka: An ABC Sticker Book, Little Simon (New York, NY), 1995.
Stuart J. Murphy, Jr., A Pair of Socks, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1996.
Ann Turner, Angel Hide and Seek, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1998.

Bill Martin, Jr., and Michael Sampson, Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2004.

Bill Martin, Jr., Ten Little Caterpillars, Beach Lane Books (New York, NY), 2011.
Rose Fyleman, Mice, Beach Lane Books (New York, NY), 2012.



Lenona.