Frog and Toad are often celebrated as queer characters, perhaps symbolising Lobel’s own life as a closeted gay man he came out in his mid-forties in the 1970s, later moving out of the family home to reside in Greenwich Village. Lobel is best known for his Frog and Toadbooks – a set of short stories about a pair of eponymous amphibians who are neighbours and best friends. He went on to write and illustrate dozens of children’s books until his death in 1987, including many with his wife, Anita, also a famous children’s author and illustrator. Born in 1933 and raised in upstate New York, Lobel studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and worked in advertising before finding success as an illustrator in the early 1960s. Arnold Lobel is one of the most famous picturebook artists in history.
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