There are new people, a teacher, classmates—will they be friendly? I believe the passage from home to school is the second biggest trauma of childhood; the first is, of course, being born.
Indeed, in both cases we leave a place of warmth and protection for one that is unknown. The unknown often brings fear with it. In my books I try to counteract this fear, to replace it with a positive message. I believe that children are naturally creative and eager to learn. I want to show them that learning is really both fascinating and fun.
Eric Carle has two grown-up children, a son and a daughter. He lives in the Florida Keys. Some works, like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, have even been translated into many different languages and are enjoyed by children around the world.
If you are interested in more complete biography of Eric, we recommend the autobiography section of The Art of Eric Carle published by Philomel Books. After his great success in Eric Carle has published more than seventy books many of which are best sellers also written by him.
Over million copies of his books have been sold around the globe till yet. In mid his family moved back to Germany when he was six years old. He once told a reporter that his wife thinks that he still suffers from post traumatic stress from those days. During his time in Germany, Eric recalls, he was always homesick and dreamt of his return one day to the land of his happiest childhood memories, America. In he did finally returned to New York with only 40 U.
The idea for the format of the book came from playing around with a hole punch and thinking of a worm eating its way through a book; an editor suggested a caterpillar would be a more attractive creature for children. Much later, when the book became a bedrock of early learning and even symbolic of it, Carle had to inform parents and teachers that he did know that caterpillars come from chrysalises and not cocoons to prevent an avalanche of correcting correspondence.
By the end of the 20th century, producing almost a book a year, Carle had become a worldwide household name and a major influence on pre-school learning. In , following a visit to Japan, where illustration for children is more highly regarded, and as a payback to the world of the very young, which had feted him and made him wealthy, Carle and his wife, Barbara, established the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Carle had never sold or given away his work so at the heart of the collection are more than 10, original illustrations. The museum is also an education centre, providing professional training for teachers, and has both a picture book and a scholarly library.
Later, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, where he studied graphic design.
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