Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress.Eric Carle has illustrated more than seventy books, and more than 88 million copies of his books have sold around the world. His editor suggested that a caterpillar might prove a more endearing character – the rest is history.įirst published in 1969, The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold over 29 million copies in more than 47 languages. Encouraged by this success, Carle began submitting ideas for his own books. Soon afterwards, children’s book author Bill Martin asked him to illustrate the manuscript of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? The resulting book was an instant hit. His first published work appeared in a cookery book. In the mid 1960s, Carle decided to give up this career to become an illustrator and graphic designer. Returning to New York in 1952, Carle built a successful career in advertising. At 16, Carle began studying graphic art at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. During the war, his art teacher showed him his hidden collection of banned “degenerate” art, including works by Picasso, Klee and Matisse. Carle’s childhood years in Germany were traumatic as an adult he would make “books for the child in me, books I had longed for.” It is no surprise that his style is characterised by an explosive use of colour. He was always drawn to America after his family moved to Stuttgart when he was six.
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