How the Heck to Pronounce “Arnold Lobel”

I’m turning into a single serve site today¹ to do a public duty.

Arnold Lobel (you know, the children’s literature legend behind Frog and Toad and other classics) has one of those names often pronounced different ways. Sometimes I would hear “LO-BULL” other times “LO-BELL”. I had no idea what to believe². But a little while back, I came across an old Scholastic Records edition of Frog and Toad Are Friends, which Lobel himself narrates. His first line set me forever straight on the matter.

(Click the vine to hear the sound)

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¹You know the sites I’m talking about – the sites that tell you just one thing, like if it’s time for a nap or if it’s St. Patrick’s Day.

²I should have gone to the Author Pronunciation Guide at TeachingBooks.net.

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