In 1977 interview for The Lion and the Unicorn, Lobel explained that he wrote these books by imagining what children would want to read. His early works had a broad humor often in verse, a style that he would return to at other points in his career. Lobel's writing and illustrations went through several phases in his career.
Cartoons his children watched were also an inspiration, as were popular television shows like Bewitched and The Carol Burnett Show.
His second book, A Holiday for Mister Muster, and perhaps others were inspired by the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, across from which the Lobels lived. Joseph Stanton, writing in The Journal of American Culture, argues that Lobel's style was "timid" before Lobel started writing easy readers. Lobel used animals as characters because he felt it helped with the suspension of disbelief. His style could be described as minimalist and frequently had animals as the subject matter. Dragon presented "poems by Thomas Smith and drawings by Arnold Lobel from Schenectady." His professional career began during the 1960s, writing and illustrating "conventional" easy readers and fables. On the Octoepisode of "Kukla, Fran and Ollie", Oliver J. Lobel began drawing during a period of extended illness as a second grader. Lobel loved his work, saying "I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children" and described his job as a daydreamer. He died of cardiac arrest on December 4, 1987, at Doctors Hospital in New York, after suffering from AIDS for some time. In the early 1980s, he and Anita separated, and he moved to Greenwich Village. In 1974, he told his family that he was gay. They had two children: daughter Adrianne and son Adam Lobel, and three grandchildren.įollowing college, Lobel was unable to support himself as a children's book author or illustrator and so he worked in advertising and trade magazines, which he did not like. The two worked in the same studio and collaborated on several books together. In 1955, after he graduated, he married Anita Kempler, also a children's writer and illustrator whom he'd met while in art school. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Lobel's childhood was not a happy one, as he was frequently bullied, but he did love reading picture books at his local library. Lobel was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lucille Stark and Joseph Lobel, but was raised in Schenectady, New York, the hometown of his parents. Lobel also illustrated books by other writers, including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley published in 1969.
He wrote and illustrated these picture books as well as Fables, a 1981 Caldecott Medal winner for best-illustrated U.S. Arnold Stark Lobel (– December 4, 1987) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup.
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