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Eric Carle Author Study. Created By Matt Damon, Devonte Jones, Ivory Lewis, Carla Heard. Eric Carle Biography. Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York in 1929. Carle pursued his love for art with the support of a high school art teacher .
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Eric CarleAuthor Study Created By Matt Damon, Devonte Jones, Ivory Lewis, Carla Heard
Eric Carle Biography • Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York in 1929. • Carle pursued his love for art with the support of a high school art teacher. • In 1952, after graduating from a prestigious art school in Stuttgart, Carle returned to New York. • In 1969, Carle published The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a small book that endeared him to a generation of children and adults around the world. • In 2002, Eric Carle founded and opened the first museum in the country dedicated exclusively to children's picture book art. • He wrote over 77 children’s book.
Eric Carle Books • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? • 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo • The Very Hungry Caterpillar • Pancakes, Pancakes! • The Tiny Seed • Do You Want to Be My Friend? • Walter the Baker • Have You Seen My Cat?
Eric Carle Awards • Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Literature Award presented by the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, 2008 • The NEA Foundation Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education, 2007 • Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the Association for Library Service to Children, American Library Association, 2003 • The 1995 David McCord Children’s Literature Citation, Framingham State College + The Nobscot Reading Council of the International Reading Association, 1995