Chicka Chicka Boom Boom illustrator Lois Ehlert dies at 86
Lois Ehlert worked primarily by cutting out shapes and pasting them into collages, much like the preschoolers who were her primary audience. Author: Associated Press Updated: 1:20 AM EDT May 28, 2021
MILWAUKEE Lois Ehlert, whose cut-and-paste shapes and vibrant hues in books including “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” put her among the most popular illustrators of books for preschoolers of the late 20th century, has died. She was 86.
Publisher Simon & Schuster said that Ehlert died of natural causes on Tuesday in Milwaukee.
In 1989 s “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” Ehlert created the hyper-simple brown-and-green coconut tree and the multicolored capital letters who try to gather at the top of it, threatening to bring it tumbling to the ground as the text repeats, “Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room?”