![]() ![]() ![]() He thanked Marc in the pages of "The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse." As an illustrator, he said he chose to portray animals in unconventional colors to show his young readers that in art, there is no wrong color. Although I was shocked, I always carried that day in my heart," Carle told NPR in 2011. "I was used to pretty paintings with a mountain in the background. When Carle was 12 or 13, a high school art teacher would change his life by inviting him to his home, where he secretly showed his expressionist art, including Franz Marc's "Blue Horse." Under the Nazis, modern, expressionistic and abstract art was banned and only realistic and naturalistic art was permitted. This photo illustration taken on shows Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Book of Many Things" in Los Angeles, California.īorn to German immigrant parents in Syracuse, New York, Carle and his family returned to Germany - Nazi Germany, at the time - when he was 6. But we in the children's book community will miss him terribly," National Book Award finalist Jarrett J. His books and his advocacy for the arts will continue to ripple through time. "To have spent some time with Eric Carle was the closest thing one could get to hanging out with the actual Santa Claus. One of his last books was 2015′s "The Nonsense Show," which centered on a parade of flying fish, cat-taming mice and circus animals. or other authors, but most with Carle working alone. It's beyond reproach," he said.Ĭarle wrote and-or illustrated more than 75 books, sometimes partnering with Bill Martin Jr. "It's almost talking about how great the Beatles were. Fellow writer and illustrator Ted Dewan called the book one of the pillars of children's culture. The American Academy of Pediatrics sent more than 17,000 pediatricians special copies of the book, along with growth charts and parent handouts on healthy eating. Bush and Hillary Clinton were known to read the book to children on the campaign trail. "'Caterpillar' is a book of hope: you, too, can grow up and grow wings." ![]() "I remember that as a child, I always felt I would never grow up and be big and articulate and intelligent," Carle told The New York Times in 1994. It has sold some 40 million copies and has been translated into 60 languages, spawned stuffed animal caterpillars and has been turned into a stage play. Originally conceived as a book about a bookworm - called "A Week with Willi the Worm" - the hero, who eats through 26 different foods, was changed to a caterpillar on the advice of his editor. ![]()
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