While the rest of her classmates were making pastries in cooking classes, Mary Nohl was making art-anything she fancied out of anything she could find. Inspiration struck Mary even when she wasn’t looking for it. Mary used common objects to make uncommon art. And one day, her garden was a gallery.
Mary Nohl passed away in 2001 at the age of eighty-seven. Her famous garden gallery is located in the front yard of her Fox Point, Wisconsin, home to this day. AGES: 6-9 AUTHOR: Tina and Carson both grew up in Milwaukee, influenced by Mary Nohl’s garden of fantastical creatures. They blossomed into professional artists and created three rather loud creatures of their own. After years of dreaming about how to turn Mary’s wonderland into a book, Tina and Carson combined traditional and digital collage elements to capture the spirit of Mary’s art. Carson is a storyboard supervisor for Nickelodeon Animation, and Tina is a full-time children’s book illustrator. Colour illustrations