20 blocks of shopping, dining, arts galleries and theaters in a one-time swamp. By Cari Taylor-Carlson - Jul 1st, 2021 04:25 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Milwaukee Public Market. Photo by Cari Taylor-Carlson.
Distance: 20 blocks
Start: At the corner of Water Street and St. Paul Avenue
Once a time, cattails, marsh grass, and wild rice flourished in the Third Ward. Beavers, butterflies, and diving beetles populated the marsh and Water Street was a swampy Indian trail alongside the Milwaukee River, a main thoroughfare then and now. In the early 1800s, there must have been some surprised buyers when they discovered the property they had purchased in the place we now call the Third Ward, was a swamp.
These two authors entertained and inspired generations of children, and we should honor their memory by continuing to read and pass on their beautiful works.
Lois Ehlert, Creator of Boldly Colored Childrenâs Books, Dies at 86
Ms. Ehlert, whose best-known book was âChicka Chicka Boom Boom,â made distinctive collage artwork for readers ranging in age from infancy to 10.
The author and illustrator Lois Ehlert in an undated photo. Her âChicka Chicka Boom Boomâ sold more than 12 million copies across various formats.Credit.Lillian Schultz
May 30, 2021Updated 2:24 p.m. ET
Lois Ehlert, the childrenâs book author and illustrator who won a Caldecott Honor for âColor Zooâ (1997) and whose 1989 book, âChicka Chicka Boom Boom,â sold more than 12 million copies across various formats, died on Tuesday in Milwaukee. She was 86.
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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.