He was the author, she was the illustrator for numerous books featuring animals, including Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas and a novel called The Mouse and His Child. The couple married in 1944, and they are perhaps best known for their series of picture books in the 1960's about a young badger who loves bread and jam. The couple divorced and the husband remarried and moved to England, where he described why writers and artists create. "They can't help it...Art, like babies, is one of the things that life makes us make." This is Russell and Lillian Hoban, creators of the books about a badger called Frances.
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