Arlene Mosel

Tikki Tikki Tembo won the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and Lent won the annual Caldecott Medal for The Funny Little Woman.

[1] Mosel had been an assistant in the children's department at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, before becoming an associate professor of library science at Case Western Reserve University.

She was also an assistant coordinator of Children's Services at the Cuyahoga County Public Library.

The book Tikki Tikki Tembo was published by Holt in 1968 and illustrated by Blair Lent,[2] It was presented as a retelling of a traditional Chinese story about a boy whose rescue after falling into a well was delayed due to his extremely lengthy name.

[5] In another collaboration with illustrator Blair Lent, Mosel's 1972 story The Funny Little Woman, published by E. P. Dutton, won the Caldecott Medal for illustration,[6] and was recognized as an Honor Book for the Globe–Horn Book Award[3] and the 1974 Hans Christian Andersen International Children's Book Awards.