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which is Paris' Jewish quarter.
Now it is very chic, but I wanted it
to look like the end of the '40s. The
grandmother looks like my mother
vita Lobel's rich and melo-
looked after the war. The ladies who
dious voice reveals the mer-
visit in the last story do look like the
est hint of her Eastern
European roots. Reached in women who would sit around and gos-
sip with my mother when we were still
her Soho apartment in Manhattan,
in Europe."
Caldecott-winner Lobel spoke with the
Lobel punctuated the monochromat-
Jewish News about her art; life with her
ic browns and greys of the Marais illus-
husband, the late author/illustrator
trations with subtle washes of ochre,
Arnold Lobel (the Frog and Toad series);
red and green.
and her most
In contrast,
recent illustrating
the illustra-
triumph. She is
tions of the
responsible for
folktales
the artwork in
themselves are
Adele Geras' My
riotous with
Grandmother's
color and a
Stories, a reissue
verve that
of a collection of
leaps from the
Jewish folktales
page.
originally pub-
The stories
lished in 1990.
are more free
Unifying this
form, definite-
engaging collec-
ly more color-
tion is Lobel's
fill and the-
sure hand and
atrical," Lobel
artistry. She
says. "When
approached the
you do an
book with a
anthology
keen under-
you
have to
standing of its
approach
it
multiplicity of
like a mural
narrative levels.
or a tapestry.
The telling of
You have to
each folktale is
"The ladies who visit in A Phantom at the
summarize
launched
e
women
who
would
sit
Wedding'
look
like
th
and pick up
through conver-
th
my
mother
when
we
around
and
gossip
wi
on telling
sations between
says
Lobel.
were
still
in
Europe,"
moments. You
the young narra-
have to
tor and her
squeeze in lots of information into one
beloved grandmother.
or two pictures. I loved doing this
A visitor prompts the telling of "A
book. I surprised myself."
Phantom at the Wedding." A tapestry
Surprise has twinned itself to Lobel's
that hangs in Grandmother's dining
talent
from the beginning. During
room spools into 'A Tangle of Wools."
high school in Sweden (where Lobel
"There were two things I wanted to
and her brother were reunited with
separate," Lobel explains. The pic-
their parents after the war), Lobel's
tures that were actual — the grand-
teacher instructed her young charges to
mother and granddaughter — and the
choose a picture from a portfolio of
[folk] stories. I set the grandmother
still lifes and reproduce it as best as
and her granddaughter in the Marais,
they could. "Without much enthusi-
Debra B. Darvick is the author of
asm, just wanting to be obedient,"
"This Jewish Life: Stories of Discovery
Lobel recalls in her 1998 memoir, No
Connection and Joy." She speaks 12:30
Pretty Pictures, "I looked over the pic-
p. M. Sunday Nov. 9, at the JCC in .
tures carefully. My eyes fell on a print
West Bloomfield.
of a pretty, delicate chair."

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