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In and around Minneapolis. Bounded on the north by Golden Valley. On the south by Richfield. On the east by University Avenue. On the west by Seattle. |
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Tomi Ungerer. Mischief maker.
Still making beautiful illustrations and hopefully still playing tricks. Tomi will be 80 in November so Phaidon Press recently reissued some of his children’s books and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., just opened a retrospective, “Tomi Ungerer: Chronicler of the Absurd.”
His illustrations for “Flat Stanley” remain some of my favorites. I begrudgingly purchased a new copy of Flat Stanley for my little friend, Trixie, with illustrations by someone else. Definitely not even close to the charm of Tomi. Fail.
