Anita Lobel archive

THIS COLLECTION IS CLOSED FOR PROCESSING.

The Anita Lobel archive documents the life and work of the award winning children’s book author and illustrator, Anita Lobel. The collection was donated in late 2015 by Anita Lobel in honor of Ginger Shuler and Leslie Tetreault. Lobel is known for her colorful illustrations and picture books including Allison’s Zinnia, Away from Home, So Happy and One Light, One Moon, winner of a New York Times Best Illustrated Book award and the first of three children’s books featuring her cat, Nini. Anita Lobel has also illustrated the children’s books of other authors, most notably the works of her first husband, Arnold Lobel, with whom she has two children. Their works together include: On Market Street, which was named a Caldecott Honor Book for illustration, How the Rooster Saved the Day, Tree Full of Pigs and Rose in My Garden

In addition to her multitude of children’s books and illustrations, Anita Lobel’s 1998 childhood memoir, No Pretty Pictures, was a National Book Award Finalist. No Pretty Pictures recounts Lobel’s childhood in Nazi occupied Poland, hiding with her brother and nanny, Niania, their eventual capture and imprisonment in concentration camps until the end of the war and her recuperation in Sweden after the war. The memoir ends with teenage Anita and her family’s arrival in New York City in 1950.