‘Chicka Chicka Boom Boom’ illustrator Lois Ehlert dead at 86
NPR reported. Legendary musician Ray Charles narrated an audiobook adaption of it and it inspired everything from an eponymous 1992 album to a 1995 CD-ROM game, a 1999 animated short film adaption and a 2004 sequel (“Chicka, Chicka, 1, 2, 3”). While “Chicka” was her best-known work, it was Ehlert’s book “Color Zoo” that won her the Caldecott Honor in 1990.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.