Happy, Hungry Catepillar
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- March
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, which was first published in 1969.
To date it has been translated into more than 47 languages and sold over 29 million copies.
It is one of my favorite children’s book, but I particularly love the book because it is one of the first ones I read to my two sons. And it is one of the books they first responded to. I recall watching them wiggle around like a caterpillar and they really enjoyed the illustrations and the colors.
Eric Carle really created something that was long lasting. (To the right is an illustration from his site acknowledging the four decades.) Carle was born in Syracuse, N.Y., but as a young child moved to Germany with his parents and went to school there. As an adult he worked for The New York Times and then an advertising agency doing illustrations and artwork. He currently lives in Florida and North Carolina, says the biography on his site.
To note the date, Google has adapted its logo and it is really cute.
I just learned that there is The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass. Sounds like a day trip to me.
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on Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 4:40 pm by Barbara Nackman.
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