She worked in graphic design before she began illustrating children's books in her 50s, starting with 1987's 'Growing Vegetable Soup. Its only words are the names of the shapes and creatures themselves.Įhlert was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and graduated from Milwaukee's Layton School of Art. In 1990, she was given a Caldecott Honor as the author and illustrator of 'Color Zoo,' which uses basic triangles, rectangles, squares and circles to create images of animals in oversaturated oranges, purples and greens. The focus with all titles is comprehension. Lois Ehlert has created numerous inventive, celebrated, and bestselling picture books, including Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Holey Moley, The Scraps Book, Mice, Ten Little Caterpillars, RRRalph, Lots of Spots, Boo to You, Leaf Man, Waiting for Wings, Planting a Rainbow, Growing Vegetable Soup, and Color Zoo, which received a Caldecott Honor. It includes Waiting on Wings, Feathers for Lunch, Growing Vegetable Soup, and Nuts for You. This author study bundle includes FOUR TITLES plus a lapbook project focused on Lois Ehlert s life.

She worked primarily by cutting out shapes and pasting them into collages, much like the preschoolers who were her primary audience. Lois Ehlert s books offer animal connections which kids love. The book sold more than 12 million copies, according to Simon & Schuster. In 1989's 'Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,' Ehlert created the hyper-simple brown-and-green coconut tree and the multicolored capital letters who try to gather at the top of it, threatening to bring it tumbling to the ground as the text repeats, 'Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room?' Publisher Simon & Schuster said that Ehlert died of natural causes on Tuesday in Milwaukee. With a simple, rhyming text and glorious color-drenched collage, Lois Ehlert provides clear answers to these and other questions as she follows the life cycle of four common butterflies, from their beginnings as tiny hidden eggs and hungry caterpillars to their transformation into full-grown. Obituaries Eric Carle, Creator Of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' Has Died

Waiting for wings by lois ehlert