![]() Lois Ehlert has also retold and illustrated folk tales from other lands and has created art for books by other authors. Leaf Man won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book, and Snowballs was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year (all Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). (Both Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.) Color Zoo (HarperCollins) combined bold colors with die-cut pages and was a Caldecott Honor Book. ![]() Her first author/illustrator offering, Growing Vegetable Soup, showed children the steps in cultivating a garden, and her follow-up, Planting a Rainbow, featured an unusual format-a vivid array of flowers in six pages of staggered width. “As an artist, I love to experiment,” she says, “and I find that each book has its own personality.” Using paper, textiles, and found objects, she creates vivid collages that break the boundaries of traditional formats and designs, bringing joy and wonder to her picture book audience. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lois Ehlertbrings a distinctive graphic style to the books she writes and illustrates. ![]()
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