Eric Carle

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, including his most well-known title, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart, before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for the New York Times and later as art director for an advertising agency. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold more than forty-six million copies and has been translated into sixty-two languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle lives in the Florida Keys.
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Can a Cat Do That?
Can a Cat Do That?
By Eric Carle
El gallo sale a ver el mundo (Rooster's Off to See the World)
El gallo sale a ver el mundo (Rooster's Off to See the World)
By Eric Carle
My First I See You
My First I See You
By Eric Carle
Papá, por favor, bájame la luna (Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me)
Papá, por favor, bájame la luna (Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me)
By Eric Carle
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