|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other authors named Eric:
|
|
|
|
Author's popularity: 0
Vote:  
|
If you like or dislike this author in general or one or more of their quotes in particular, please give us your feedback by clicking on the icon to vote for, or the icon to vote against them.
|
|
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out! |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | We haven't come up with an answer, but I think what it is is it's a book of hope. You little, ugly, little, insignificant bug: you, too, can grow up to be a beautiful, big butterfly and fly into the world, and unfold your talents. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | With The Very Hungry Caterpillar, it started out as a green worm. Actually, I started punching holes into a stack of paper, and I looked at the holes and I said, "That's a bookworm." |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago. |
|
Biography
|
Eric Carle is a children's book author and illustrator, most famous for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has been translated into 50 languages.
Carle was born in 1929 Syracuse, New York, moved to Germany when he was six. He moved to New York City in 1952, and landed a job as a graphic designer. He later moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he still resides today. The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a museum devoted to children's books and founded by Carle and his wife, opened in 2002 in nearby Amherst.
External link * Eric Carle's web site
...(more on Wikipedia)
|
|
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Eric Carle".
|
|
|