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Author Lois Ehlert captivated children with 'Chicka Chicka Boom Boom'


Michelangelo painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. That would be too high up for little kids to see, so Milwaukee s Lois Ehlert puts her art on the floor leading into the Milwaukee Public Library Central Library s children s room when it was renovated in 1998. 
Prompted by a commission from interior designer Susie Fondrie, Ehlert thought about pictographs she had seen during a visit to Peru. So Ehlert fashioned pictographic animals to welcome children into the space. 
I had to come to terms with the idea that people would walk on my art, Ehlert said with a chuckle during a 2008 interview with Journal Sentinel book editor Geeta Sharma Jensen. (Her pictographic animals are in linoleum.) It’s kind of a reverse Sistine Chapel. When kids come into the room, they jump from one animal on the floor to another. This floor will probably last longer than I do. ....

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Lois Ehlert, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom illustrator, has died at 86


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. ....

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Lois Ehlert, illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, dies at 86


Lois Ehlert, illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, dies at 86
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, died Tuesday. She was 86.
Publisher Simon & Schuster said Ehlert died in Milwaukee from natural causes, ABC News reported.
Ehlert s cut-and-paste shapes and the vibrant colors she utilized in her illustration style created an iconic look that placed her among the most popular illustrators of books for preschoolers in the late 20th century.
The 1989
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom book, written by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, sold more than 12 million copies, according to Simon & Schuster.
We’re so sad to say goodbye to legendary children’s book author & illustrator Lois Ehlert, creator of many beloved picture books including Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, which she illustrated. Lois was just like her art inventive, colorful, unexpected and funny! We ll miss her so much. pic.twitter.com/FNZNnqzSnC Simon Kids (@SimonKIDS) May 26, 2021 ....

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