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Blair Lent was children's book author and award-winning artist whose detailed work illustrated beloved books like Tikki Tikki Tembo, The Funny Little Woman, and Why the Sun & the Moon Live in the Sky. Although Lent occasionally wrote and illustrated his own books, like Pistachio, about a green cow and a circus, he specialized in illustrating international folk tales retold by other writers.