# Tomi Ungerer, RIP

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 15, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomi-ungerer-rip/829613 "2019-02-15T17:38:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomi-ungerer-rip/829613/1 "2019-02-15T17:38:33Z")

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[NTY obituary](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/obituaries/tomi-ungerer-dead.html).

A bit surprised this wasn’t posted before. When I was a kid my parents had a copy of ‘The Hat’ which I loved. Somehow that book was lost. I still remember the vivid illustrations and a couple of years ago I bought a copy of the book in excellent condition and still love the illustrations. That was the only children’s book of his that I read, and I am sorry that I never experienced the other books as a child.

In December of 2017 I was in Strasbourg for the Christmas markets. I didn’t know that there was a Tomi Ungerer museum there, so finding it was an unexpected treat.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomi-ungerer-rip/829613/2 "2019-02-15T17:59:17Z")

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> [@Dag\_Otto](#):
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> [NTY obituary](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/obituaries/tomi-ungerer-dead.html).
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> A bit surprised this wasn’t posted before. When I was a kid my parents had a copy of ‘The Hat’ which I loved. Somehow that book was lost. I still remember the vivid illustrations and a couple of years ago I bought a copy of the book in excellent condition and still love the illustrations. That was the only children’s book of his that I read, and I am sorry that I never experienced the other books as a child.
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> In December of 2017 I was in Strasbourg for the Christmas markets. I didn’t know that there was a Tomi Ungerer museum there, so finding it was an unexpected treat.

never read any of the books he illustrated. For some reason, the image I saw over and over associated with is name was “Virgin Milking a Unicorn”:

> **[Stranger than Fiction: TRUC Poster Illustration by Tomi Ungerer](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/187321665721492200/)**
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> Discover the mesmerizing TRUC poster illustration created by Tomi Ungerer in 1968. Let this captivating design take you on a visual journey into a world where reality meets imagination.

> **[Arthur.io • A Digital Museum](https://arthur.io/art/tomi-ungerer/virgin-milking-a-unicorn)**
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> Arthur is a digital museum.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomi-ungerer-rip/829613/3 "2019-02-15T18:33:28Z")

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Oh no! One of my favorite books, as a young child, was Crictor, the story of an old lady who was sent a boa constrictor by her naturalist son. I loved the pictures too, especially one of a statue townspeople made of the snake, wearing a wreath of laurel leaves.