Anita Lobel

More than twenty years ago, Anita Lobel published her childhood memoir, “No Pretty Pictures”, to much acclaim. A child's tale of surviving Hitler's Poland, a rescue by the Swedish Red Cross in 1945, and ending with school years in Stockholm, that book was written in a young girl's voice. “No Pretty Pictures” was nominated for the National Book Award, received gratifying reviews, and sold extremely well. Now, these many years later, she has...

Various animals greet the sunrise in their own unique voices, except for the owl who welcomes the night

A child buys presents from A to Z in the shops along Market Street

Proceeds through the alphabet using boys' names and the names of exotic places in alliterative fashion

One golden morning, twenty-six pigs leave their pen, race along a country road, and find a field of letters, where they play all day until Zeke Pig falls asleep on a Z and they wearily return home by moonlight.

Recounts how a mother's love and potatoes ended the war

A family's day spent in the city reveals a wealth of contrasting images

Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

A young girl and her friends spend the day dressing up like the insects and animals they find in the garden

A variety of flowers grows near the hollyhocks that give shade to the bee that sleeps on the only rose in a garden