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==Writing and illustrating==
Lobel loved his work
Lobel began drawing during a period of extended illness as a second grader.<ref name="Parents Choice">{{cite web|title=Arnold Lobel|url=http://www.parents-choice.org/article.cfm?art_id=35|website=Parent's Choice|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-date=23 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723194445/http://www.parents-choice.org/article.cfm?art_id=35|url-status=dead}}</ref> On the October 25, 1950 episode of "Kukla, Fran and Ollie", Oliver J. Dragon presented "poems by Thomas Smith and drawings by Arnold Lobel from Schenectady."<ref>{{Citation |title=Kukla, Fran and Ollie - Ollie's Would-be Biography - October 25, 1950 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkWkcSaM_Ys |language=en |access-date=2022-04-25}}</ref> His professional career began during the 1960s, writing and illustrating "conventional" easy readers and fables. His style could be described as minimalist<ref name="WaPo" /> and frequently had animals as the subject matter.<ref name="Parents Choice" /> Lobel used animals as characters because he felt it helped with the suspension of disbelief.<ref name="Astonished Witness" /> [[Joseph Stanton]], writing in ''The Journal of American Culture'', argues that Lobel's style was "timid" before Lobel started writing easy readers.<ref name="American Culture" />
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