Arnold lobel biography aids definition

American illustrator and writer (–)

Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22, – December 4, ) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup.

He wrote and illustrated these picture books as well as Fables, a Caldecott Medal winner for best-illustrated U.S. picture book. Lobel also illustrated books by other writers, including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley.

Arnold lobel biography aids definition

Biography

Lobel was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lucille Stark and Joseph Lobel, and raised in Schenectady, New York, the hometown of his parents, by his German-Jewish grandparents.^[1] Lobel was frequently bullied in his childhood^[2] and often read picture books at his local library.^[3] He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

In , after he graduated, he married Anita Kempler, also a children's writer and illustrator whom he'd met while in art school. The two worked in the same studio^[4] and collaborated on