ERIC CARLE

Eric Carle is acclaimed as the creator of brilliantly

illustrated and innovatively designed picture books

for very young children. His best-known work The

Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969) has been read by

millions of children all over the world and has been

translated into 62 languages and sold over 41

million copies.Eric Carle has illustrated more than

seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he

also wrote, and more than 132 million copies of his

books have sold around the world.

Born in Syracuse, New York, in 1929, Eric Carle

graduated from the prestigious art school, the

Akademie der bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart. But

he returned to America, the land of his happiest

childhood memories. He won the Laura Ingell

Wilder Award for his career contribution to

American children's literature in 2003.

ERIC CARLES'S TITLES

• 1965, Aesop's Fables for Modern Readers (Peter Pauper

Press) (illustrator)

• 1965, Nature Thoughts: A Selection (Peter Pauper Press)

(illustrator)

• 1966, On Friendship: A Selection (Peter Pauper Press)

(illustrator)

• 1967, Flower Thoughts: A Selection (Peter Pauper Press)

(illustrator)

• 1967, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

(illustrator)

• 1968, 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo

• 1969, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

• 1970, Pancakes, Pancakes!

• 1970, The Tiny Seed

• 1970, Tales of the Nincompoop (illustrator)

• 1970, The Boastful Fisherman (illustrator)

• 1971, Feathered Ones and Furry (illustrator)

• 1971, The Scarecrow Clock (illustrator)

• 1971, Do You Want to Be My Friend?

• 1972, Rooster’s Off to See the World

• 1972, The Very Long Tail

• 1972, The Secret Birthday Message

• 1972, Walter the Baker

• 1973, Do Bears Have Mothers Too? (illustrator)

• 1973, Have You Seen My Cat?

• 1973, I See a Song, 1973

• 1974, Split-page book collection:

• My Very First Book of Numbers

• My Very First Book of Colors

• My Very First Book of Shapes

• My Very First Book of Words

• 1974, Why Noah Chose the Dove (illustrator)

• 1974, All About Arthur

• 1975, The Hole in the Dike (illustrator)

• 1975, The Mixed-Up Chameleon

• 1976, Eric Carle’s Storybook, Seven Tales by the Brothers

Grimm

• 1977, The Grouchy Ladybug

• 1978, Watch Out! A Giant!

• 1978, Seven Stories by Hans Christian Andersen (sequel to Seven Tales by

the Brothers Grimm)

• 1980, Twelve Tales from Aesop

• 1981, The Honeybee and the Robber

• 1982, Otter Nonsense (illustrator)

• 1982, Catch the Ball!

• 1982, What's for Lunch

• 1983, Chip Has Many Brothers (illustrator)

• 1984, The Very Busy Spider

• 1985, The Foolish Tortoise (illustrator)

• 1985, The Greedy Python (illustrator, companion to The

Foolish Tortoise)

• 1985, The Mountain that Loved a Bird (illustrator)

• 1986, All Around Us

• 1986, Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me

• 1986, Group of small-format books:

• My Very First Book of Sounds

• My Very First Book of Food

• My Very First Book of Tools

• My Very First Book of Touch

• My Very First Book of Motion

• My Very First Book of Growth

• My Very First Book of Homes

• My Very First Book of Heads

• 1986, All in a Day (Mitsumasa Anno editor)

• 1987, A House for Hermit Crab

• 1988, The Lamb and the Butterfly (illustrator)

• 1988, Eric Carle’s Treasury of Classic Stories for Children

• 1989, Animals Animals (illustrator)

• 1990, The Very Quiet Cricket

• 1991, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

(illustrator)

• 1991, Dragons Dragons (illustrator)

• 1992, Draw Me a Star

• 1993, Today Is Monday

• 1994, My Apron

• 1995, The Very Lonely Firefly

• 1996, Little Cloud

• 1997, From Head to Toe

• 1997, Flora and Tiger: 19 very short stories from my life

• 1998, Hello, Red Fox

• 1998, You Can Make a Collage: A Very Simple How-to Book

• 1999, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle

• 2000, Does A Kangaroo Have A Mother, Too?

• 2000, Dream Snow

• 2002, “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” said the Sloth

• 2003, Where Are You Going? To See My Friend! (with Kazuo

Iwamura)

• 2003, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?

(illustrator)

• 2004, Mister Seahorse

• 2005, 10 Little Rubber Ducks

• 2006, My Very First Book of Numbers

• 2007, Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? (illustrator)

• 2008, The Rabbit and the Turtle

• 2009, Google Logo Design (illustrator)

• 2009, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Pop-Up Edition (40th

Anniversary Tribute Book)

• 2011, The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse

• 2013, Friends

• 2014, What's Your Favorite Anima