![]() It was in 1970, when an editor convinced Lobel to create an early reader (a new genre of books ushered in by Dr. They settled in Brooklyn across from the Prospect Park Zoo, where they went often with their children, inspiring one of his earliest books, A Zoo for Mister Muster (1962). He married Anita Kempler, another art student at Pratt, that same year. Lobel graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1955 with a degree in fine arts. For Lobel, picture books were “capable of suggesting everything that is good about feeling well and having positive thoughts about being alive.” His passion for books spawned a talent for storytelling and drawing, and he soon won the respect of his classmates by enthralling them with the stories he invented. ![]() Throughout his self-described unhappy childhood, he sought refuge in his local library. Raised by his German-Jewish grandparents in Schenectady, New York, Arnold Lobel was an awkward and sensitive child, often bullied at school. ![]()
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