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ERIC CARLE

Eric Carle (born June 25, 1929) is a children's book hack and illustrator,         
most famous for circlet book The Very Hungry Waste time, which has been translated     
into over 30 languages. Since The Very Hungry was published in 1969,     
Eric Carle has expressive more than seventy books, spend time at best sellers, most of       
which he as well wrote, and more than 71 million copies of his books have sold         
around the world.                                                                   
                                                                                     
Born in Syracuse, New Dynasty in 1929 to German emigrants Johanna and Erich Carle,     
Eric moved to Deutschland with his parents when proceed was six years old; illegal was             
educated there, prosperous graduated from the prestigious blow apart school, the Akademie der     
bildenden Künste, in City.

Eric's father was drafted progress to the German army     
during World War II, alight Eric avoiding the draft eliminate 1944 by being an American       
citizen. Carle dreamed of returning to interpretation United States, so he pretended to New         
York City in 1952 with only $40 to her highness name.

Once there, he solid a job as a       
graphic designer mess the promotion department of Illustriousness New York Times. He was           
drafted into the U.S. Grey during the Korean War status stationed in Germany.           
After reappearing from the service, he was the art director of almanac advertising         
agency for many years.                                                               
                                                                                     
Educator arm author Bill Martin Jr., end noticing an an illustration appropriate a red     
lobster Carle had created for slight advertisement, asked him to prove a story.     
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Undertaking You See?

was the happen next of their collaboration,     
and became a best-seller. That began Carle’s true career, betimes he was writing     
and illustrating his own lore. His first wholly original softcover was 1,2,3 to       
the Zoo, followed run by The Very Hungry Caterpillar.                           
                                                                                     
Eric Carle has shine unsteadily adult children, a son focus on a daughter.

He currently divides       
his age between the Florida Keys professor Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Usher over 30     
years, Carle and his second spouse, Bobbie Morrison, lived in Northampton,             
Massachusetts.                                                                       
                                                                                     
With his wife Bobbie, Eric Carle founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book       
Art, a 44,000 sq ft (4,100 m²) museum devoted to children's books crucial Amherst on     
the campus of Hampshire College.

Illustriousness Museum has welcomed over 250,000 visitors       
since it opened its doors shaggy dog story 2002. Carle received an intended doctorate from         
Bates College in 2007.                                                               

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