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Author photo. Eric Carle lit son livre « La chenille qui fait des trous » à la télévision, en 2009, à New York

Eric Carle lit son livre « La chenille qui fait des trous » à la télévision, en 2009, à New York

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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) — biography from The Very Hungry Caterpillar… (more)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar 20,824 copies, 1,034 reviews
The Grouchy Ladybug 6,894 copies, 223 reviews
The Tiny Seed 5,603 copies, 168 reviews
The Very Busy Spider 5,419 copies, 132 reviews
A House for Hermit Crab 5,040 copies, 93 reviews
From Head to Toe 4,371 copies, 121 reviews
The Mixed-Up Chameleon 3,546 copies, 99 reviews
Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? 3,392 copies, 140 reviews
Pancakes, Pancakes! 3,185 copies, 75 reviews
Rooster's Off to See the World 2,811 copies, 51 reviews
The Very Quiet Cricket 2,680 copies, 77 reviews
Today Is Monday 2,627 copies, 57 reviews
Little Cloud 2,526 copies, 64 reviews
Have You Seen My Cat? 2,517 copies, 60 reviews
Do You Want to Be My Friend? 2,183 copies, 51 reviews
The Very Lonely Firefly 2,107 copies, 47 reviews
Mister Seahorse 2,050 copies, 91 reviews
Eric Carle's Animals Animals (Illustrator) 2,028 copies, 28 reviews
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? (Illustrator) 1,994 copies, 36 reviews
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me 1,897 copies, 71 reviews
1, 2, 3 to the Zoo: A Counting Book 1,582 copies, 46 reviews
10 Little Rubber Ducks 1,484 copies, 59 reviews
The Secret Birthday Message 1,370 copies, 35 reviews
Walter the Baker 1,354 copies, 23 reviews
Draw Me A Star 1,233 copies, 35 reviews
Hello, Red Fox 981 copies, 29 reviews
Dream Snow 944 copies, 21 reviews
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle 877 copies, 22 reviews
My Very First Book of Colors 672 copies, 8 reviews
Eric Carle's Dragons, Dragons (Illustrator) 665 copies, 19 reviews
The Rabbit and the Turtle 658 copies, 23 reviews
I See a Song 624 copies, 27 reviews
My Very First Book of Shapes 558 copies, 9 reviews
The Honeybee & the Robber 431 copies, 11 reviews
My Very First Book of Numbers 401 copies, 7 reviews
Friends 273 copies, 15 reviews
Eric Carle Around The Farm My First Look And Find (Illustrator) 249 copies, 3 reviews
What's Your Favorite Animal? 223 copies, 9 reviews
The Art of Eric Carle 177 copies, 6 reviews
Tom Thumb 149 copies, 15 reviews
The Nonsense Show 148 copies, 13 reviews
Let's Paint a Rainbow 146 copies, 6 reviews
Watch Out! A Giant! 143 copies, 14 reviews
What's Your Favorite Color? 116 copies, 3 reviews
Flora and Tiger 111 copies, 5 reviews
All Around Us 80 copies, 2 reviews
My Very First Library 69 copies, 1 review
Stories for All Seasons 64 copies, 1 review
My Very First Book of Food 63 copies, 2 reviews
My Very First Book of Motion 63 copies, 2 reviews
Eric Carle Animal Flash Cards 31 copies, 1 review
Above Us, in the Sky 21 copies, 1 review
With Us, on the Earth and Sea 17 copies, 1 review
Eric Carle Decorative Prints 17 copies, 1 review
Land and Sea 14 copies
Loud and Quiet 10 copies
Up and Down 6 copies
My Very First Book of Sounds 5 copies, 1 review
Bird Calls 3 copies
Small Wonders 2 copies
Dies und Das 2 copies, 1 review
Animal sounds 2 copies
Under the Sea 2 copies
Colors 1 copy
FIRE TRUCK 1 copy
Mon papa 1 copy
numbers 1 copy
Questions, Questions 1 copy, 1 review
Opposites 1 copy
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Illustrator) 13,114 copies, 687 reviews
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Illustrator) 5,241 copies, 117 reviews
A Color of His Own (Illustrator) 4,709 copies, 167 reviews
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? (Illustrator) 2,955 copies, 58 reviews
The Foolish Tortoise (Illustrator) 1,810 copies, 16 reviews
The Greedy Python (Illustrator) 1,631 copies, 16 reviews
The Lamb and the Butterfly (Illustrator) 1,258 copies, 11 reviews
Thank You, Brother Bear (Illustrator) 665 copies, 4 reviews
The Mountain That Loved a Bird (Illustrator) 604 copies, 10 reviews
Why Noah Chose the Dove (Illustrator) 568 copies, 7 reviews
The Hole in the Dike (A Blue Ribbon Book) (Illustrator) 344 copies, 7 reviews
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (Contributor) 323 copies, 7 reviews
The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry (Foreword) 285 copies, 15 reviews
All in a Day (Illustrator) 195 copies, 6 reviews
Star of Stars (Cover artist, some editions) 101 copies
Aesop's Fables for Modern Readers (Illustrator) 29 copies, 1 review
Seven Stories by Hans Christian Andersen (Illustrator) 29 copies, 1 review
Nature Thoughts a Selection (Illustrator) 16 copies
Flower thoughts; a selection (Illustrator) 11 copies
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