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Obituary: Lois Ehlert publishersweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publishersweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lois Ehlert, the children s book collagist whose vibrant illustrations for
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom helped it sell more than 12 million copies, died of natural causes Tuesday in Milwaukee, publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday. She was 86.
Ehlert s other works include
Color Zoo which won her a Caldecott Honor in 1990
Eating the Alphabet,
In My World, and
Fish Eyes. She told Reading Rockets in 2013 that her family helped make her an artist, explained that her book
Hands was largely autobiographical, and recounted how she began working in collage before she could even spell the word.
Ehlert was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in 1934, and earned an English degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison before attending Milwaukee s Layton School of Art. She worked in graphic until she published her first children s books in 1987, when she was already in her 50s.