Born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in 1934, this author/illustrator grew up in a happy home filled with art supplies, scraps of lumber from her father's workshop and fabric from her mother's sewing room. Her favorite medium was collage, and after graduating from the UW/Madison she went to art school in Milwaukee and worked as a freelance illustrator. Her first book as an author and illustrator was Growing Vegetable Soup in 1987, but perhaps she is best known for her artwork in the book by Bill Martin Jr. where the alphabet climbs up a coconut tree. The book, chosen by President Obama to read to visiting children, is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and the artist is Lois Ehlert.
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