{"id":2608,"date":"2015-03-08T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2015-03-08T09:38:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T14:38:05","slug":"lent-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/lent-blair\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent, Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2629 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"Blair Lent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ph_lent_140.jpg\" alt=\"Blair Lent\" width=\"140\" height=\"145\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2627 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_funny_140.jpg\" alt=\"The Funny Little Woman\" width=\"140\" height=\"134\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2628 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_tikkitikkitembo.jpg\" alt=\"Tikki Tikki Tembo\" width=\"140\" height=\"192\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2626 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bk_babayaga_2.jpg\" alt=\"Baba Yaga\" width=\"140\" height=\"175\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Once an illustrator wins the Caldecott Medal, he or she becomes known by that work. Illustrator Blair Lent, born on January 22, 1930, was recognized in 1973 with a Caldecott Medal for\u00a0his illustrations in <em>The Funny Little Woman<\/em>\u00a0and a\u00a0 Caldecott Honor in 1969 for his illustrations for\u00a0<em>Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky: An African Folktale<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Boston, he studied art at the Boston Museum School. After a tour of Europe, he worked as a graphic designer. In 1964, the Atlantic Monthly Press published his first book, <em>Pistachio<\/em>. Through the years, he illustrated much-loved books, including <em>Baba Yaga<\/em>, <em>Tikki Tikki Tembo<\/em>, and <em>The Wave<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lent died on January 27, 2009, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014\u00a0Heidi Grosch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once an illustrator wins the Caldecott Medal, he or she becomes known by that work. Illustrator Blair Lent, born on January 22, 1930, was recognized in 1973 with a Caldecott Medal for\u00a0his illustrations in The Funny Little Woman\u00a0and a\u00a0 Caldecott Honor in 1969 for his illustrations for\u00a0Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the &#8230; <a title=\"Lent, Blair\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/lent-blair\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lent, Blair\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1043],"tags":[542,1906,1901,1903,432,1902,369,357,1904,1908,1907,1905],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-l","tag-author","tag-baba-yaga","tag-blair-lent","tag-boston-museum-school","tag-childrens-books","tag-funny-little-woman","tag-illustrator","tag-massachusetts","tag-pistachio","tag-the-wave","tag-tikki-tikki-tembo","tag-why-the-sun-and-the-moon-live-in-the-sky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-G4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}