My Very First Library
by Eric Carle
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Here is the perfect gift for young children learning their colors, shapes, and numbers. All four of Eric Carle's popular new split-page board books are now packaged together in a slipcased library. A game as well as a learning experience, these early concept books are both fun and smart. Children can turn the top pages independently from the bottom pages, creating a matching game that offers all the charm of Eric Carle's bright collage illustrations. Collected here are My Very First Book of show more Colors, My Very First Book of Shapes, My Very First Book of Numbers, and My Very First Book of Words. Irresistible fun for young hands and minds! show lessTags
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The educator in me was super excited when I found these books. The boxed set has four board books, and they all share the same unique format, though they depict different themes. Inside the cover, the pages are split in half horizontally. The bottom half of the page has an illustration in Carle's beautiful style. The top half of the book is determined by the theme of the book. For the book that features colors, the top of the page shows a rectangle block of colors; for the book that is about numbers, the number word and a pictograph for each number is presented; the book about shapes names a shape and a picture of it in black silhouette; and the word book has a printed word on top that will correspond to one of the pictures below. The show more idea is that the child reads the number, color, word, or shape on top, and flips through the bottom pages until they find a picture that matches the top panel. These attractive board books teach children basic concepts in a fun format with attractive illustrations. My girls enjoy these books, although not as much as I want them to. Nonetheless, I love the concept and the artwork, and I know they are a welcome addition to our library. show less
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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 show more 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) show less
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