‘Tomi Ungerer: Chronicler of the Absurd’

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The illustrator and author Tomi Ungerer is experiencing a career renaissance. Several of his children’s books have been reissued and a documentary about his life will be released this fall.

Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times

‘Tomi Ungerer: Chronicler of the Absurd’

Images from a retrospective of the children’s books illustrator’s work at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass.