![]() ![]() Ungerer began working on erotic art and designing political posters, including pieces that protested segregation and the Vietnam War. While writing the children’s books that made him famous, Mr. Ungerer’s picture books as ‘‘simple, wry and grotesque,’’ adding: ‘‘You can go exploring in his pictures, bursting with color, with surprising details, silhouette effects, soft yet precise outlines, and changing, plastic forms.’’Īmong his most celebrated works were 1961’s ‘‘The Three Robbers,’’ a moody, blue-hued tale of highway bandits who terrorize the countryside, and 1966’s ‘‘Moon Man,’’ in which the title character falls to Earth, enjoys its flowering landscapes, and is promptly thrown in prison, only to slip through the bars as he grows smaller as part of the lunar cycle. A biography prepared for the prize described Mr. Writing about outcast characters such as Emile the octopus and Crictor the boa constrictor, he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award, one of the highest honors in children’s literature, in 1998. ![]() ![]() But he became best known for his children’s books, including the illustrations for Jeff Brown’s 1964 classic ‘‘Flat Stanley,’’ about a boy who is crushed flat by a bulletin board, slips inside envelopes to travel by mail, and restores himself to proper size with the aid of a bicycle pump. ![]()
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