| Tommi Ungerer |
Tomi Ungerer
A big kid
'This boy is perverse and subversive,' a teacher wrote of the young Tomi Ungerer. It is a verdict has has always tried to live up to, which may be a reason why his art and children's books, widly popular elsewhere, do not entirely please the British
by Sally VincentThe Guardian, Saturday 20 November 1999
| Illustration by Tomi Ungerer |
Tomi Ungerer has more facets than Elizabeth Taylor's diamond collection. He is Alsatian, a European who has lived most of his adult life in America, and is now an honorary Irishman. Writer, painter, sculptor, designer, illustrator, cartoonist, inventor, surrealist, political activist, espouser of good causes, fund-raiser, patron of arts, practical jokesmith, toy collector, archivist of human absurdity, ferocious moralist and moulder of children's minds.