Arnold Lobel

Arnold Lobel was born in Los Angeles in 1933 and grew up in Schenectady, New York, where he was raised by his grandparents and was often ill as a child. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and married Anita Kempler, also an illustrator, with whom he sometimes worked. He began illustrating children's books in the early 1960s and went on to write and illustrate many of his own, especially easy-to-read books for beginning readers. The best known are the four books about two friends, Frog and Toad, beginning with Frog and Toad Are Friends (1970), which was a Caldecott Honor Book; Frog and Toad Together was a Newbery Honor Book. Other favorites include Mouse Soup, Owl at Home, Grasshopper on the Road and Mouse Tales. His collection Fables won the Caldecott Medal in 1981. He also illustrated books by other writers. Lobel died in New York in 1987.

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Faith: Raised by his German-Jewish grandparents; his personal beliefs are not well documented. Source: Wikipedia