The two worked in the same studio and collaborated on several books together.
In 1955, after he graduated, he married Anita Kempler, also a children's writer and illustrator whom he'd met while in art school.
He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Lobel's childhood was not a happy one, as he was frequently bullied, but he did love reading picture books at his local library. Lobel was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lucille Stark and Joseph Lobel, but was raised in Schenectady, New York, the hometown of his parents. Lobel also illustrated books by other writers, including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley published in 1969. He wrote and illustrated these picture books as well as Fables, a 1981 Caldecott Medal winner for best-illustrated U.S. Arnold Stark Lobel (– December 4, 1987) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup.
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