Lois Jane Ehlert (November 9, 1934 – May 25, 2021) was an American author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature.
This method is called collage—the process of cutting out pieces of paper, fabric, or objects and gluing them to a backing.
[6] Amongst her first credited books as an illustrator was I Like Orange (1961) by Patricia Martin Zens, the author of The Gingerbread Man.
The book was a garden-to-table guide for small children exposing the lifecycle of activities from planting seeds to steaming the vegetables in the kitchen.
Then she began her artwork, which involves cutting out each piece individually and then gluing them on the pages of her book.
[2] The book, which had text by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, had a colorful alphabet climbing a coconut tree.
The book was read by the then US president Barack Obama to young visitors during the 2013 White House Easter Egg Roll.
[2] Writing about her, the Publishers Weekly, called attention to her "signature collage artwork featuring bold colors and crisply cut shapes as well as found objects.