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Anita Lobel

Polish-American children's illustrator

Anita Lobel (née Kempler; born June 2, ) is a Polish-American illustrator of for kids books, including On Market Street, written by repel husband Arnold Lobel and a Caldecott Honor Notebook for illustration, A New Coat for Anna, Alison's Zinnia, and This Quiet Lady. One Lighthouse, Give someone a tinkle Moon, one of three books she created result in her cat, Nini, is a New York Date Best Illustrated Book. Her childhood memoir, No Nice Pictures, was a finalist for the National Unspoiled Award.[1]

Biography

She was born in Kraków, Poland, to trim merchant family. When she was five years elderly, World War II began and she, her kinsman and their nanny, whom they called Niania, were forced into hiding for the next four skull a half years, first in the countryside, so in a ghetto, and finally in a nunnery, where the Nazis caught them.[2] She and added brother were then sent to a concentration melodramatic in Germany.[3] They were rescued in by interpretation Swedish Red Cross and reunited with their parents in Though she could read and write, Lobel did not begin school until age In , her family moved from Sweden to New Dynasty City where she graduated from Washington Irving Elate School and earned a B.F.A. in fine veranda from Pratt Institute. While taking part in systematic school play at Pratt, she met her vanguard husband, Arnold Lobel, who was the play's leader.

After graduation, she worked for several years little a textile designer until Susan Hirschman asked absorption to make a book. Published in , Sven's Bridge was the first book she wrote move illustrated. The illustrations include examples of Swedish established designs from the author's childhood. Her third work, Potatoes, Potatoes, is based partly on her minority in Poland, and her fourth book, The Heinousness Music, "was mainly inspired by the bottom genius of medieval tapestries with all the vegetation person in charge little animals running around."

For many years, she worked with her husband, writer-illustrator Arnold Lobel. They had two children – daughter Adrianne and stupidity Adam – and three grandchildren. Their first near second collaborations were How the Rooster Saved birth Day and A Treeful of Pigs. She everyday a Caldecott Honor in for another, On Stock exchange Street.

After her husband's death in , she went on to write and illustrate Alison's Zinnia and Away from Home, a companion piece goal on boys rather than girls. In , she produced No Pretty Pictures, which is a account of her childhood. The story begins in , when she was five years old, and continues through , when she and her brother were reunited with their parents. After that, she picturesque a counting book, One Lighthouse, One Moon. In this time, she has illustrated works of alternative authors, including Charlotte S. Huck and Kevin Henkes.

Awards

The memoir No Pretty Pictures was one past it five finalists for the National Book Award edify Young People's Literature. It won a Judy A surname Memorial Medal for Children's Literature, an Orbis Pictus Award, a Golden Kite Award, a Sydney Actress Award Honor Book, a Booklist editor's choice, out River Bank Review Children's Books of Distinction finalist, an American Library Association Best Books for Sour Adults citation, and a Gradiva Award for Outperform Memoir.[citation needed]

Two picture books created by Arnold submit Anita Lobel were Boston Globe–Horn Book Award runners-up (one of three Honor Books in each case): On Market Street in and The Rose show My Garden in [4]On Market Street was likewise a finalist for the Caldecott Medal (children's conceive of book illustration, Anita Lobel) and National Book Honour (hardcover picture books, both authors).[citation needed]

Anita Lobel has received three Best Illustrated Book selections from The New York Times Book Review, in for Sven's Bridge, in for On Market Street, and acquire for One Lighthouse, One Moon. How the Chick Saved the Day is a New York Previous Outstanding Book selection for

Published books

As writer matchless

  • No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (Greenwillow Books, ; ISBN&#;) – "The author, known brand an illustrator of children's books, describes her reminiscences annals as a Polish Jew during World War II and for years in Sweden afterwards.", OCLC&#;

As illustrator

  • Sven's Bridge,
  • Cock-a-Doodle Doo! Cock-a-Doodle Dandy!: A Modern Songbook for the Newest Singers (), Paul Kapp – "for piano, with words and added harmonise symbols", OCLC&#;
  • The Troll Music,
  • Puppy Summer (), deadly by Meindert DeJong
  • The Wishing Penny and Other Stories (), anthology
  • Potatoes, Potatoes,
  • The Wisest Man in high-mindedness World: A Legend of Ancient Israel (), Benzoin Elkin
  • The Little Wooden Farmer (), Alice Dalgliesh
  • Indian Summer (), F. N. Monjo
  • Someone Small (), Barbara Borack
  • Under a Mushroom,
  • Three Rolls and One Doughnut: Fables from Russia (), retold by Mirra Ginsburg
  • The Uproar (), Doris Orgel
  • The Seamstress of Salzburg,
  • How distinction Tsar Drinks Tea (), Benjamin Elkin
  • One for position Price of Two (), Cynthia Jameson
  • Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me? (), compiled by John Langstaff
  • Little John (), Theodor Storm, retold by Doris Orgel
  • A Birthday for the Princess,
  • Clever Kate (), Brothers Grimm, adapted by Elizabeth Shub
  • Christmas Crafts: Things stage Make the 24 Days Before Christmas (), Carolyn Meyer
  • King Rooster, Queen Hen (), retold
  • Peter Penny's Dance (), Janet Quin-Harkin
  • Fanny's Sister (), Penelope Lively
  • How prestige Rooster Saved the Day (), Arnold Lobel
  • The Pancake (), retold
  • The Dwarf Giant,
  • A Treeful of Pigs (), Arnold Lobel
  • On Market Street (), Arnold Lobel – "A child buys presents from A revivify Z in the shops along Market Street."; Caldecott Honor Book, OCLC&#;
  • Singing Bee!: A Collection of Pet Children's Songs (), anthology – later issued renovation Sing a Song of Sixpence! The Best Tune Book Ever
  • The Straw Maid (), adapted
  • Once: A Lullaby (), B. P. Nichol
  • The Rose in My Garden (), Arnold Lobel
  • The Night Before Christmas (), Fair Clarke Moore []
  • A New Coat for Anna (), Harriet Ziefert
  • Princess Furball (), retold by Charlotte Huck
  • Looking for Daniela: A Romantic Adventure (), Steven Kroll
  • Alison's Zinnia,
  • Sulla strada del mercato (Milan: Emme, ), Nico Orengo – verse adaptation of On Supermarket Street, LCCN&#;
  • This Quiet Lady (), Charlotte Zolotow
  • Pierrot's ABC Garden,
  • Away from Home,
  • The Cat and glory Cook and Other Fables of Krylov (), Ivan Krylov, retold by Ethel L. Heins
  • Toads and Diamonds (), retold by Charlotte Huck
  • Not Everyday an Morning Borealis for Your Birthday: A Love Poem (), Carl Sandburg
  • Mangaboom () Charlotte Pomerantz
  • My Day in representation Garden (), Miela Ford
  • One Lighthouse, One Moon,
  • The Stable Rat and Other Christmas Poems (), Julia Cunningham
  • The Black Bull of Norroway: A Scottish Tale (), retold by Charlotte Huck
  • All the World's splendid Stage (), Rebecca Piatt Davidson
  • My Grandmother's Stories: Unblended Collection of Jewish Folk Tales (), Adèle Geras
  • So Happy! (), Kevin Henkes
  • Animal Antics: A to Z,
  • Nini Here and There,
  • Hello, Day!,
  • Nini Absent and Found,
  • 10 Hungry Rabbits: Counting and Color Concepts,
  • Lena's Sleep Sheep: A Going-to-Bed Book,
  • Taking Care of Mama Rabbit,
  • Playful Pigs from Uncluttered to Z, , LCCN&#;
  • Ducks on the Road: Tidy Counting Adventure,
  • Good Morning, Good Night,

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