Eric Carle

Eric Carle

Author and Illustrator

Fast Facts - Born in New York in 1929 and then at the age 6 moved to Germany -17 years later he moved back to New York with 40 dollars in his pocket and got a job in the promotion department at the New York Times-Believes ideas are a product of experience and to access them you need to use his "thinking time machine"-Since 1969 he illustrated more then 70 books-To form his art he hand paints paper then cuts it into colorful art-has a new company that sells products based on his books called the world of Eric Carle

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Eric Carle reading the Very Hungry Catapillar

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