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Lois Ehlert (1934–2021), “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” illustrator

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Lois Ehlert was an illustrator known for children’s books including the classic “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.”Ehlert was working as a graphic designer before she began illustrating children’s books while she was in her 50s.

Her first book was 1987’s “Growing Vegetable Soup,” but it was the 1989 book “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” with text by Bill Martin Jr.

and John Archambault, that became her best-known work. Its simple images, depicting the letters of the alphabet climbing a coconut tree, have delighted children for decades, and Ehlert received several awards for her work on it.

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