In Memory: Lois Ehlert

Photo credit Mark Blevis

By Bree Bender

Award-winning author and illustrator Lois Ehlert has died at the age of 86.

‘Chicka Chicka Boom Boom’ Illustrator Lois Ehlert Dead at 86 by Hannah Frishberg from the New York Post. Peek: “Before her career in children’s books, which she began in her 50s, she obtained a degree from Milwaukee’s Layton School of Art and worked in graphic design. In addition to ‘Color Zoo’ and ‘Chicka Chicka,’ she also illustrated 1987’s ‘Growing Vegetable Soup,’ 1998’s ‘Plan...