Eric Carle

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Eric Carle (born June 25, 1929) is an American designer, illustrator, and children's book writer.

He is best known for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a picture book that has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies, equal to 1.8 million copies, since it was first published in 1969.

What Do You See? How can he succeed as an illustrator and children's book author after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Carle has illustrated more than 70 books, the majority of which he wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world. The American Library Association has given Carle the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, a award for writers or illustrators of children's books published in the United States who have made lasting contributions to the field, since 2003.

In 2010, Carle was also a nominee in the United States for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Early life

Carle was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Johanna (née Oelschlaeger) and Erich W. Carle, a civil servant. The family returned to Stuttgart when he was six years old, his mother, homesick for Germany, led the family back to Stuttgart. He was educated there and graduated from the local art academy, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. His father was drafted into the German army at the start of World War II (1939) and taken prisoner by the Soviet forces when Germany capitulated in May 1945. He returned home in late 1947, weighing 85 pounds (39 kg). When Carle returned home, he told The Guardian that his father was a troubled man. He was a "sick guy." "It's psychologically, physically devastated."

Carle was sent to Schwenningen, Germany, to escape Stuttgart's bombings. On the Siegfried Line, the German government used to send boys of that age to dig trenches. He didn't bother to think about it deeply, and said that his wife believed he suffered from post-traumatic stress.

He was always homesick for the United States, but he had hoped to return home one day. He made it to New York City in 1952 with just $40 in savings and landed a job as a graphic designer in The New York Times' promotions department. He was recruited into the United States Army during the Korean War and deployed in Germany with the 2nd Armoured Division as a mail clerk. He returned to his old job with The New York Times after being fired. He became the art director of an advertising company later in life.

Personal life

Carle and his second wife, Barbara Morrison, lived in Northampton, Massachusetts, for more than 30 years. He also owned a home in Key Largo, Florida. Carle had a son and a daughter.

He founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, which is adjacent to Hampshire College, with his second wife. Since opening its doors in 2002, the museum has welcomed over 500,000 people, including more than 30,000 school children.

Carle earned several honorary degrees from colleges and universities, including Williams College in 2016, Smith College in 2016, Appalachian State University in 2013, and Bates College in 2007.

On its home page on March 20, 2009, Google paid tribute to Carle and his book "Very Hungry Caterpillar" by asking him to create the logo "Google doodle," referring to the first day of spring.

Carle has received numerous awards for his children's literature, including the Japan Picture Book Award, the Regina Medal, and the Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award. He received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now known as the Children's Literature Legacy Award), which honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made "a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children." "The committee cited his "internal observations of the natural world" and his innovative designs: "Taking the medium of collage to a new degree, Carle creates books that incorporate an interactive element, tactile or auditory findings, die-cut pages, foldouts, and other creative uses of page space."

The Very Hungry Caterpillar was named the number two children's picture book in a 2012 survey by School Library Journal readers, behind Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are.

In 2019, Carle's honor would have a jumping spider resembles a caterpillar, as well as commemorating his 90th birthday.

The Frist Art Museum's photo book "Eric Carle's Picture Book: Celebrating 50 Years of The Very Hungry Caterpillar" on display from October 18, 2019 to February 23, 2020 was on display from October 18, 2019. Carle sold his publishing rights to Penguin Random House in November 2019.

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Writing and illustrating career

Educator and author Bill Martin Jr. noticed the illustration of a red lobster Carle had created for an advertisement and asked him to collaborate on a picture book.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? was published by Henry Holt & Co. in 1967 and became a best-seller. Thus began Carle's career as an illustrator, and soon he was writing and illustrating his own stories. His first books as both author and illustrator were 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo and The Very Hungry Caterpillar in 1969.

His artwork was created as collage, using hand-painted papers, which he cut and layered to form bright and colourful images. Many of his books have an added dimension—die-cut pages, twinkling lights as in The Very Lonely Firefly, even the lifelike sound of a cricket's song as in The Very Quiet Cricket. The themes of his stories are usually drawn from nature and inspired by the walks his father would take him on across meadows and through woods.

In his own words:

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