Our book cover this week is for Meines Vaters Son, 1983. A German translation of Irish author Frank O'Connor's memoir, My Father's Son.

© 1983 Tomi Ungerer and Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich.

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Wanted to try a pose with Tomi!

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Hello! I'm Tomi. I love animals, craft, create artwork and make adoptables.
(this is a side account! My main artwork account is )

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"Sentient Beings Part 2" by Tomi Väisänen https://t.co/LDtkzcGo54

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Day 2 of owl week, here's another page from John Hollander's "A Book of Various Owls", which Tomi illustrated in 1963. The title is great, because it literally is a book of various owls.

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Every Monday we're sharing one of the many different book cover designs Tomi created for authors through the years. This one was for the Urs Widmer Lesebuch, 1980.

© Tomi Ungerer/ Diogenes Verlag AG Zürich 1980

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Listening to Lost in Wars (feat. Tomi Joutsen) by Battle Beast (via

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Tomi's adopted home of Ireland is very unusually sunny right now. Benito Badoglio is perambulating the rural roads gleefully, like this:
-S.M.

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Day 3 of pig week after you voted for pigs over horses in our animal poll. These ones are from "Snail, Where Are You", first published in 1962 and still in print!

Find this book in a shop near you, we've got a list of great stockists on Tomi's website: https://t.co/BQCyQ9kLoz

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Happy Easter! Here's a couple of festive drawings via Musée Tomi Ungerer in Strasbourg for this week's . Chinese and coloured inks on tracing paper, circa 1980s.

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tomiさん( )の塗り絵完成!!
やっぱり私はピンクとパープルが好きです❤️❤️
あぁ💕楽しかった( ´﹀` )💓
女の子の毛先ピンクは、実は前に自分がやってた髪色😂(前髪なしだったけど)

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More larking around in the archives for our bird week. This pair are from "Lear's Nonsense Verses", illustrated by Tomi in 1967.

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In case you've ever wondered what goes into making a Tomi Ungerer book... our latest blog posts shows off some of the hand drawn sketches and thought processes behind "Fog Island" https://t.co/gFP8HdFJB6

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Tomi's books have been translated into dozens of languages, here is "The Mellops Go Diving for Treasure" in Korean! You can see more unusual and vintage book covers on our blog here: https://t.co/AMXuDOIzEn

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Tomi est mis à l’honneur en ce moment dans les médias français à l’occasion du lancement de son livre, Ni Oui, Ni Non. Voici une liste des émissions avec les liens vers les replay: https://t.co/aV282CE4LY

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You voted for cats in this week's animal poll, so here's a cat from Tomi's new book, Ni oui ni non!

Find more info on the new book (in French) here: https://t.co/Tbc8Yza5vF

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Tomi got such a glow up lmao As a concept I guess tomi's existed since 9 years ago

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Crictor is simply delighted about all this snow in Ireland, where he now lives with Tomi.

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