About lois ehlert

Author lois ehlert

Welcome Biography Books by Lois! Librarian Resources. Stories Read to You! Who Is Lois Ehlert? She grew up in a happy home as the child of Harry and Gladys Ehlert. Her father did woodworking and her mother sewed. Her artistic creativity was encouraged from an early age by her parents. Her mother used to give her scraps of cloth from her sewing and her father used to give her scraps of wood.

She has been quoted as saying that construction paper was rather wimpy in color. Ehlert preferred the bright colors of the fabric compared to the pale colors of the construction paper. Her parents encouraged her by providing a card table in a small room for her to work at. She still has that very card table to work at today and adapts it for each project.