Sunday Happiness: Eric Carle on The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Ali..we live about a half hour from the museum, in Western Mass. It is by far the most amazing place...his artwork for books and on it's own is incredible. Hope you get to visit some day!

That book holds special memories as it was the first book my son ever read aloud to me. The museum sounds intriguing.
Happy Sunday (what is left of it!)

His use of color fascinates me. My 87 year old Grandmother just scored some Eric Carle hardbacks at a garage sale. He is one of my fave kid authors! Nice post

I love The Very Hungry Caterpillar, My kids have a copy of it too. :)

Beautiful! What a gem indeed! Thanks for sharing. . . .and now off to look at his blog!

Thanks for sharing, Ali. We love Eric Carle in our house, too.

This is why I check blogs - what a great post! Thanks for this bit of fun.

Had the opportunity to meet him and have that book signed by him when my daughter was young. She is now 17 and I treasure that book and will give it to my grandkids someday as well as his other books that are all my favorites!!

We read it just lats night

Thanks so much for sharing this, we love Eric carle in our house and I have read and used his books at school.

My kids STILL love his books and they're 9 and 7. Hope you're getting the routine down over there! She's an angel!!! Simon sounds like such a sweet big bro too!!! What a blessing for you!!! Hugs

The video's saying "no longer available" when I try to click on it. I'm wondering if it's the video clip that Scholastic's been using to promote their bookfairs this spring. . . where he actually recreates the caterpillar and talks about how it was originally a story about a worm. I volunteer in our school library, and saw it at least 7-8 times . .. and loved it each time. I'm sad that none of my kids are Eric Carle crazy anymore.

P.S. I Love it when my favorite "blog peeps" post on Sundays!!! Thanks, Ali!!!

yea ali.... come visit :) then you can swing down to the cape and visit us!!!!

I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Eric Carle and have a book autographed. He is truly a special man. I hope to visit the museum on of these days. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing this, Ali! My kids love this book :)

Hey Ali,
We are huge fans of Eric Carle in this house as well. In fact, keep an eye on the museum events because we have ordered his books and gotten them signed - I believe he does a special event - possibly yearly :)

We love Eric Carle books. The librarian just read this book yesterday during storytime. We have The Very Hungry Caterpillar in Spanish. My son was frustrated because he couldn't find it last night. We read The Tiny Seed instead. Thanks for sharing the video.

Hi Ali,
I live about 20 minutes from the museum and I have heard great things about it. In fact, in celebration of the 40th anniversay of his book and his 80th birthday, you can meet him on August 23rd here at the museum. Sounds like you all need to visit Western Massachusetts!

We are big Eric Carle fans here too.
I wanted to pass a link to you. My son is into legos as well and we've been totally enjoying this blog.
http://legomyphoto.wordpress.com/
I have no association with this guy, don't know him. Just a fan of his photography and his wit.