The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Īlways homesick for the United States, he dreamed of returning home one day. When I say standing, I mean the roof and windows are gone, and the doors. And in Stuttgart, our home town, our house was the only one standing. None of us children - Russian prisoners and other conscripted workers. And the first day three people were killed a few feet away. You know about the Siegfried line? To dig trenches. He did not care to think about it deeply and said his wife thought he suffered from post-traumatic stress. When he was 15, the German government conscripted boys of that age to dig trenches on the Siegfried Line. Psychologically, physically devastated.' Ĭarle was sent to the small town of Schwenningen to escape the bombings of Stuttgart. Carle told The Guardian years later that his father was a broken man when he came back. He returned home in late 1947 weighing 85 pounds (39 kg). His father was drafted into the German army at the beginning of World War II (1939) and taken prisoner by the Soviet forces when Germany capitulated in May 1945. He was educated there and graduated from the local art school, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. When he was six years old, his mother, homesick for Germany, led the family back to Stuttgart. Early life Ĭarle was born on June 25, 1929, in Syracuse, New York, the son of Johanna (née Oelschlaeger) and Erich W. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010. who have made lasting contributions to the field. In 2003, the American Library Association awarded Carle the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award), a prize for writers or illustrators of children's books published in the U.S. He illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world. His career as an illustrator and children's book author took off after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Eric Carle (J– May 23, 2021) was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle