Ehlert began creating artwork as a child, and her parents set up a folding table at home exclusively for her projects. Ehlert was identified as a trucker in the 1940 census, but his family liked to call him a blue-collar worker whose jobs included dairy worker, maintenance man and gas-station attendant. She was the eldest of three children of Harry and Gladys (Grace) Ehlert. 9, 1934, in Beaver Dam, Wis., a small lakeside city. The night before, she had found a paper worm stuck to one of her shoes. “I’m dealing with one on my right thumb now,” she said. And her workday, she said, was a never-ending series of paper cuts. Ehlert said her work space at home was distinguished by “a very full and overflowing wastebasket” (because “I make lots of mistakes”) as well as “leftover color Xeroxes,” “worm-shaped pieces of paper all over the floor” (she was working on her book “Holey Moley” at the time) and six pairs of scissors.
In a 2014 interview with the trade magazine The Horn Book, Ms. Ehlert’s other book subjects included gardens ( “Planting a Rainbow,” 2003), snowmen (“Snowballs,” 1999), trees and their accessories ( “Leaf Man,” 2005), animals interested in space-travel (“Moon Rope/Un Lazo a la Luna,” 2003, based on a Peruvian folk tale), a dog that seems to talk (“Rrralph,” 2011) and a cat whose backyard bird-watching has an ulterior motive (“Feathers for Lunch,” 1996).
The American Library Association committee that awarded the Caldecott in 1990 (there were only three other Honors Books), one of the most prestigious awards in children’s book publishing, called it “a masterpiece of graphic design.”
In “ Color Zoo” (1989) - one of the numerous books she wrote and illustrated - squares, circles and triangles become mice, tigers, foxes and more.
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