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May 25, 2021
Lois Ehlert, American author and illustrator (born 1934)
Lois Ehlert
Lois Jane Ehlert was an American author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for Color Zoo in 1990. Some of her other popular works included Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Cuckoo/Cucú: A Mexican Folktale/Un cuento folklórico Mexicano and Leaf Man. She lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the time of her death in 2021.
May 25
May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 220 days remain until the end of the year.