Eric Carle
| Eric Carle | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 25, 1929 Syracuse, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author/Illustrator |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
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| Period | 1966–present |
| Genre | Children's picture books |
| Notable works | |
| Notable awards |
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal 2003 |
| Spouse | Barbara Morrison |
| Children | 1 Son and 1 Daughter |
Eric Carle (born June 25, 1929) is an American designer, illustrator, and writer of children's books. He is most famous for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a picture book with few words that has been translated into more than 62 languages and sold more than 44 million copies. Since it was published in 1969 he has illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 138 million copies of his books have been sold around the world. He won the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his career contribution to American children's literature in 2003.
For his contribution as a children's illustrator Carle was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010.
Eric Carle was born in 1929 to Marve and Jackie Carl in Syracuse, New York. When he was six years old, his mother, homesick for Germany, led the family back to Stuttgart. He was educated there and graduated from the local art school, the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. Eric's 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 early in 1945 (the end of the war). He returned home late in 1947 weighing 85 pounds. "When he came back, he was a broken man," Carle told The Guardian years later. He was a "dead man, psychologically, physically devastated."
Eric had been sent to the small town of Schwinger to escape the bombings of Stuttgart. When he was 15 the German government conscripted boys of that age to dig trenches on the Siegfried line. He does not care to think about it deeply and says his wife thinks he suffers from post-traumatic stress.
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