![]() ![]() During the war years, he said he was forced to join the Hitler Youth and dig trenches for the German army, and he filled his notebooks with battlefield scenes. ![]() His father was an artist, engineer and designer of astronomical clocks who died when Tomi was three his mother moved the family to Logelbach, near the Alsatian city of Colmar. The youngest of four children, Jean-Thomas Ungerer was born in Str asbourg in 1931. ![]() In The Three Robbers I don’t use the word ‘gun’. ![]() “There should not be a limit of vocabulary. They understand adult language,” he said. “They understand the world, in their way. He believed adults should accord children great respect. The Council of Europe named him ambassador for childhood and education that same year. In 2007, a museum dedicated to his life and work opened in Strasbourg, France. In Europe, his popularity soared he sold millions of books in Germany and France. He was then effectively blacklisted in the United States, with many of his books removed from libraries and lost to American readers until about a decade ago, when Phaidon Press began reissuing his work. Ungerer once attended a conference where angry librarians asked him why an illustrator of children’s books would also depict graphic sex acts. ![]()
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