Anita lobel biography
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Anita (Kempler) Lobel (–) Biography
Biographical and Critical Sources
BOOKS
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Cummins, Julie, editor, Children's Book Illustration and Design, PBC International,
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, editor, Books Are by People, Citation Press,
Kingman, Lee, and others, editors, Illustrators of Children's Books: –, Horn Book (Boston, MA),
Kingman, Lee, and others, editors, Illustrators of Children's Books, –, Horn Book (Boston, MA),
Lanes, Selma G., Down the Rabbit Hole, Atheneum (New York, NY),
Montreville, Doris de, and Donna Hill, editors, Third Book of Junior Authors, H. W. Wilson (Bronx, NY),
Silvey, Anita, editor, Children's Books and Their Creators, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA),
PERIODICALS
Booklist, April 1, ; May 1, , Carolyn Phelan, review of This Quiet Lady, p. ; November 15, , Carolyn Phelan, review of Pierrot's ABC Garden, p. ; August, ,
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“A Very Happy Ending”
A pillar of the picture book world since , when she published her debut title, Sven’s Bridge, Anita Lobel has created dozens of illustrated works for children. These include ’s On Market Street, written by her former husband, the late Arnold Lobel, and named a Caldecott Honor Book. Lobel, who began her artistic career as a textile designer, has also made her mark penning nonfiction based on her own life, beginning with ’s No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War, a National Book Award finalist. Lobel, born Anita Kempler in into a Jewish family in Kraków, described her childhood memoir as “a child’s tale of surviving Hitler’s Poland, a rescue by the Swedish Red Cross in , and ending with school years in Stockholm.”
More than 20 years later, Lobel continues her life story in the autofiction Stone Soup: Morsels of an Unsettled Life. After opening with harrowing flashbacks to th
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Anita Lobel (Kempler)
Born in Krakow, Poland on June 2,
In , Anita and her two year younger brother Bernard, escaped from the ghetto and were hidden by their governess, Rozalia. The Kempler children managed to return to their home in the ghetto and were hidden for a while in a cloister, until they were discovered and sent to Plaszow concentration camp. Fortunately, their mother’s oldest brother, Sigmund Greenberg, was an architect and engineer, and was very much needed by the Nazis. He risked his life insisting that if the children were not allowed to live he would never work for them again.
Anita and Bernard were later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau for a brief time, but in the face of the impending invasion by Russian forces, the children were sent to Ravensbrück, a concentration camp that held women only. In , Anita and Bernard were liberated and sent to Sweden by the Red Cross. They arrived in malm on April 28, Eventually, through the Red Cross, the children were reunited w