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THE all-time classic picture book, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! Have you shared it with a child or grandchild in your life?
Carle's classic tale of a voracious caterpillar who eats his way through the days of the week and then changes into a eautiful butterfly has been reissued in a sumptuous twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a shiny, silver-coated cover and wonderfully thick, durably pages.
--The Horn Book
"The very hungry caterpillar literally eats his way through the pages of the book--and right into your child's heart..."
-- Mother's Manual
"Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative..."
-- The New York Times Book Review
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Author Notes
Eric Carle is an award-winning, children's picture book author and illustrator whose most recognized work is The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book. Carle was born to German parents in 1929 in Syracuse, New York. The family returned to Germany in 1935, moving to a suburb of Stuttgart. Carle disliked high school, quitting at the age of 16 before graduation. He was admitted as the youngest student to the Akademie der bildenden Kunste, an art school.
After finishing at the Akademie, he worked as a poster designer for the U.S. Information Center in Germany until 1952, when he moved back to New York City. He was a graphic designer at the New York Times and later worked as an art director at L.W. Frohlich & Co. In 1963, Bill Martin, Jr. saw a poster of a red lobster that Carle had designed and asked him to illustrate Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, thus launching his freelance career. Among his many children's books are Dream Snow, Hello, Red Fox, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle, and Pancakes, Pancakes! His title The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse made Publisher's Weekly Best Seller List for 2011. His title Brown Bear Brown Bear What to You See? made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. In 2015 he made The New Zealand Best Seller List with Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Eric Carle, beloved children's book author and illustrator, died on May 23, 2021. He was 91.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar comes the first-ever pop-up edition of this book. When the familiar, tiny caterpillar pops out of his egg, a dial lets readers help him chug across Carle's earthy color palette. Next, the caterpillar eats his way through a week's worth of pop-up fruit, as well as a full-page display of sweet and savory treats, (resulting in a stomach-ache), before his eventual transition into a butterfly. The pop-ups, particularly a half-cylinder tree trunk that sprouts from the center of the spread and a large accordionlike cocoon, are well executed and engaging. While the prominent use of white space lends a sparser feel than in the picture book, the shimmering wings of the pop-up butterfly dazzle on the final spread. Ages 3-up. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Carle's classic tale of a voracious caterpillar who eats his way through the days of the week and then changes into a 'beautiful butterfly' has been reissued in a sumptuous twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a shiny, silver-coated cover and wonderfully thick, durably pages. From HORN BOOK 1994, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
School Library Journal Review
A good translation of this much-loved picture book. Children will be fascinated by the caterpillar's varied diet and miraculous transformation into a beautiful butterfly. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Guardian Review
The Cloud Atlas novelist on the inspiration of Italo Calvino and learning from Chinua Achebe and Simone de Beauvoir The book I am currently reading Im juggling, as usual. Madame Zero, Sarah Hall s recent collection of short stories, which I cant praise highly enough; Thank You for Your Service by David Finke l, a gritty non-fiction account of the lives of US veterans; a proof of David Peaces new novel, his best to date to my mind, Patient X, about Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa ; and The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories. The book that changed my life Some books I read as a kid made me hungry to write notably Ursula K Le Guins and so gave me a future to day dream about. The book I wish Id written The only way to write a worthwhile book by a person who isnt you is to have lived that persons life. This life-swap isnt going to happen this side of a Philip K Dick story, so is not this wish a strange and unfulfillable desire? Envying other authors royalty statements, of course, is another question entirely. The book that influenced my writing Some of my novels are in conversation with certain books like Cloud Atlas and Italo Calvinos If on a Winters Night a Traveller but thats more to do with inspiration or research than influence. The book that changed my mind Many, many authors have made me aware of the ignorance I didnt know I was labouring under: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chinua Achebe and Sam Selvon; Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf (in A Room of Ones Own) and Rebecca Solnit; George Monbiot and Rachel Carson; but isnt this what reading, ideally, should always be about? The last book that made me cry Census by Jesse Ball, a Chicagoan writer. Its a near-uncategorisable kind of fable about, yet not about, the authors late brother, who had Downs syndrome. I finished it on a plane yesterday in economy class, in the middle seat of a row of three, so there was nowhere to hide. I had to pull my woolly hat over my face and looked like a bank robber whod forgotten to cut out the eye-holes. Before that it was Patrick Nesss A Monster Calls. I finished it on the old reading sofas in Waterstones in Cork and wept silently until a kind bookseller came to ask if I was OK. I showed her the book and she just nodded like I was the tenth one that week. The last book that made me laugh Humour and wit make me glow while I read, but to laugh so hard you wish it would stop, I tend to need interaction with a live human being. That said, I distinctly snickered at a scene in John Boynes The Hearts Invisible Furies when the protagonist goes to confession. If youve read it, youll know the scene. The book I give as a gift When a friend has a baby I like to get in first with Eric Carles The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but it should be the thick board edition so it can double as a teething aid. Book-devouring kids tend not to know Rosemary Sutcliffes The Eagle of the Ninth trilogy because they were first published so long ago, but her best work is brilliant and has a not designed for kids feel that kids often pick up on and appreciate. If someone hasnt read Mikhail Bulgakovs The Master and Margarita I try to foist a copy on them. They either love it or bail when they meet the talking cat with a machine gun. The book Id like to be remembered for The last one I write before Im driven to the crematorium in a box and my career goes up in smoke. At least Id finish on an upward trajectory. - David Mitchell.
