Lois Ehlert

Lois Ehlert is our September Author of the Month! She has written and illustrated many acclaimed books for children, including HANDS: GROWING UP TO BE AN ARTIST and WAITING FOR WINGS, and LEAF MAN, both New York Times bestsellers. We read the story, RED LEAF, YELLOW LEAF before going on a leaf hunt outside at Calvert. In this book Ehlert created textual collages from a variety of seeds, roots, fabric, ribbon, wire, paper, plastic, cardboard, watercolors, crayons, pencils, pens, and oil pastels. She even scrunched some of the paper leaves with her sandals! We later used these leaves to create leaf rubbings to decorate our Author of the Month bulletin board.