Children’s book author and illustrator Sarah Williamson reflects on how the late Eric Carle, author and illustrator of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and the late Lois Ehlert, illustrator of ...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a beloved children’s book character created by Eric Carle in 1969, crawled across the page, eating holes in letters brilliantly colored in characteristic collage style.

Eric Carle and his longtime editor, Ann Beneduce, at the 2016 Carle Honors in New York. Photo by Johnny Wolf photography, ©Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.

Eric Carle was born June 25, 1929, in Syracuse, N.Y. His father, who was artistically inclined and found work in the United States spray-painting washing machines, instilled in him the love of ...

Eric Carle, the author and illustrator of dog-eared classics such as "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" passed away May 23 at 91, his publisher, Penguin Kids, announced on Twitter.

Carle’s empathy comes from his own memories of grappling with change in childhood. He was born in Syracuse, N.Y., to German immigrants, but in 1935, his grandmother persuaded the family to ...

Beloved children’s author Eric Carle died on Sunday. Carle, famous for writing “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and many other books, was born in Syracuse in 1929, the son of German immigrants ...

You really must read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, first published in 1969. It's not just a children's classic, it's a human classic — which is strange, because it has no humans in ...

The author and artist Eric Carle with his best-known book in 2002. Since it was published in 1969, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” has sold more than 55 million copies around the world.