PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Eric Carle was born in 1929 to Johanna and Erich Carle in Syracuse, New York.
Designer in the promotion department of the New York Times. He was drafted into the U.S. Amry during the Korean War and was stationed in Germany with the 2nd armoured division as a mail clerk. After discharged, he returned to his old job at NYT and later became the art director of advertising.
Educator and author Bill Martin Jr. first noticed the illustration of a lobster that Carle had created for an advertisement and asked him to collab on a picture book. In 1967 the picture book became a best-seller. This was the start of Carle's true career. Soon he was illustrating and writing his own stories. His first books as both author and illustrator were 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo and The Very Hungry Caterpillar (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969).
Eric Carle has received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities including Williams College in 2016, Smith College in 2014, Appalachian State University in 2013 and from Bates College in 2007Eric has gone on to write many other books that include,
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 Tail1972, 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
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!
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
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 (illustrator)
1994, My Apron
1995, The Very Lonely Firefly
1996, Little Cloud
1997, From Head to Toe
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
2003, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? (illustrator)
2004, Mister Seahorse
2007, Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? (illustrator)
2008, The Rabbit and the Turtle
2011, The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse
2013, Friends
2014, What's Your Favorite Animal?
2015, The Nonsense Show
2015, The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Christmas 1 2 3
2017, My First PEEK-A-BOO Animals
2017, Merry Christmas from the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle has a son and a daughter. He currently lives in the Florida Keys. For over 30 years, Carle and his second wife, Barbara Morrison, lived in Northampton, Massachusetts.
