No Pretty Pictures-Lobel's autobiography about her experience as a Polish Jew in Europe during the reign of the Nazis-is the outlier, as far as genre. Lobel has won a Caldecott Honor, Best Illustrated Books, and has been both a writer and an illustrator throughout her long and successful career in children's books. Her first book, Sven's Bridge, was published in 1965. In the 50s and into the 60s, she was a textile designer. She ended up in Sweden and then America, where she went to college to receive a BFA and where she met her husband. The story of her childhood in the Holocaust is told in No Pretty Pictures, and I don't want to spoil it for you, but one by one her family disappeared as she and her brother managed to cling together and almost magically survive. This came home with me from the library.Īnita Kempler was born in Poland just before World War II, which would prove to be important because she was Jewish and the Nazis were on their way. Then, with the acquisition of On Market Street, I began to notice the other half of the couple, Anita Lobel. My son and I both have fallen in love with the Frog and Toad series over the past several months, and so I gathered in as many Arnold Lobel books from the library as I could find. In fact, it was with her husband, the author of the Frog and Toad series that got me here. Let's start with the author, because that is where I started. It takes quite a bit of maturity to digest the contents. The more recent 2008 reissue cover is much better.ĭISCLAIMER: I do not see this as a children's or even YA book.
Published by Greenwillow Books, New York, in 1998, with an unfortunately drab and unexceptional cover (especially considering that the author is known as a children's illustrator). No Pretty Pictures: a Child f War, by Anita Lobel.
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