{"id":2862,"date":"2015-04-14T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T00:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2015-04-14T19:49:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T00:49:20","slug":"waber-bernard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/waber-bernard\/","title":{"rendered":"Waber, Bernard"},"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-2863 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ph_wabr2.jpg\" alt=\"Bernard Waber\" width=\"140\" height=\"187\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2864 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_lyle.jpg\" alt=\"Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile\" width=\"130\" height=\"173\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2865 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_ira.jpg\" alt=\"Ira Sleeps Over\" width=\"130\" height=\"168\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_cour.jpg\" alt=\"Courage\" width=\"130\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_cour.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_cour-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Born on September 27, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bernard Waber was the youngest in a creative family. At age 8, he ushered in a movie theater after school, so he often saw only the last ten minutes of a movie. He made a game of inventing beginnings and middles.<\/p>\n<p>When he returned from a tour of duty in\u00a0World War II, he entered the Philadelphia College of Art. With a diploma and a new wife, he traveled to\u00a0New York\u00a0City, where he began working for the Cond\u00e9 Nast magazines as an illustrator.<\/p>\n<p>Reading books to his three children inspired him to apply his pen and ink and watercolor style to his own picture books. His first book, <em>Lorenzo<\/em>, was published in 1961. Today, his characters are some of the most beloved in the library. Waber died May 16, 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on September 27, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bernard Waber was the youngest in a creative family. At age 8, he ushered in a movie theater after school, so he often saw only the last ten minutes of a movie. He made a game of inventing beginnings and middles. 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