Sunday Happiness: Eric Carle on The Very Hungry Caterpillar

I went to the museum last fall with my niece and it was cool to see his original work up close. He also has 4 giant paintings outside of the museum that are very colorful and you were able to take pictures of those.

We have read "Brown Bear Brown Bear, what do you see?" and "Polar Bear Polar Bear, what do you hear?". Now my wife is making 2 quilts based on Brown Bear for a lady at church who is expecting twins. She has modified the pattern (http://www.andoverfabrics.com/QuiltDesigns/BrownBear.pdf) to be a baby quilt size. It is coming out too cute. Granted her new Brother Quattro 6000D is making this easy to piece.

Eric Carle was my sons favorite also."The very lonely Firefly" was the first book report he wrote. Now he is 18 and still reads the books to our daycare kids.

I just saw that book for the very first time last September when the teacher read it in the kindergarten class I work in. I bought it at a book fair a couple weeks ago.

What a wonderful artist he is! Thanks for the video! :)

Thanks for the wonderful video today! I showed to both my sons (now 8 and 11) and they were sitting here watching and talking about how some of there favorite book were Eric Carle's. I still have the book and they hold so many memories.Eric Carle is a truely gifted story teller and artist.

Ali, I can't thank you enough for highlighting one of my kids' favorite artists/authors. I never realized he founded a museum in Amherst. I live only about an hour from there and definitely plan to take as many of my kids (ages 7-19) who will go with me. My oldest is an art major and my youngest is STILL pulling the Very Hungry Caterpillar off the book shelf for bedtime reading so I think we would ALL enjoy the museum. Thanks for this wonderful tip.

i *heart* mr. carle and all of his books. he truly makes reading a beautiful experience. thanks for sharing.

That is not what he looked like in my head LOL

He seems like such a nice man....no wonder he was able to create such amazing books. My children loved them! I am lucky to be able to teach kindergarten so I get to read them still although my own kids are big.
Thanks for the video link!

Hi Ali. Thanks for sharing. 40th birthday and 80th - how special is that. I think that is a fav book for everyone.
Happy Sunday. I love Sundays the best too.

Hi Ali -
Thanks for posting. I live about an hour away from the museum and have never been. I think we might need to venture there soon!

Thanks for sharing his blog. I love his work. I am a Kindergarten teacher, so we read many of his books!

We caught an exhibition on him in Tokyo, it was amazing watching the video how he puts his art and books together!

He is one of our family's favorite. Some books got so much use that we had to replace
them with a second copy! We have also given as gifts numerous copies of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It is usually what I give as a baby shower gift.

Ali-
Thanks so much for sharing this video with us! :) Eric Carle seems like a very sweet gentleman. I love the Very Hungry Catepillar. I especially loved how he talked about how difficult it can be to be a child. Makes you think....

We adore Eric Carle!! The Very Hungry Caterpillar was the first book our Wyatt ever read - and now he is an avid little reader.
Thanks so much for the links - we will have to get to the museum!
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Thanks for sharing this Ali - we are huge Eric Carle fans in our house as well...that is so not what I pictured him to look like though.

When my 5 yr old was born, we decorated his nursery in The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I made caterpillars and food with holes in it with paintable texturized wall paper that you can get at HomeDepot. I got together with friends and we painted sheets of the wallpaper different shades of green, blue, red, pink, yellow, silver....then when i needed green ovals I'd cut them out of the green painted sheet of wallpaper. I used wallpaper glue to put them on the walls. Unfortunately we moved when my son was 10 months old :o( It was one of the hardest and most gratifying projects I've ever done.

We love The Very Hungry Caterpillar at our house....when the nieces are here. :)