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Just a ways down the road: The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

As many parents of small (and grown-up) children know, Eric Carle is the author and illustrator of such classic picture books as The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Busy Spider. In fact, he has written and created art for more than 70 books, many of them best-sellers. His distinctive technique, which involves painting, drawing on, cutting and layering tissue papers to form collages, produces brilliantly colored, highly expressive imagery. On display in one of the three galleries in the Eric Carle Museum, one can find not only originals of his work, but also a vitrine displaying materials and tools he uses to create them. Born in 1929 in Syracuse, New York, he was educated in Germany, where he lived until 1952, when he arrived in New York City with $40 and his portfolio. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? written by Bill Martin, Jr., was the first book Carle illustrated. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, published in 1969, has been translated into more than 25 languages and has sold more than 17 million copies. http://www.picturebookart.org/home/index.asp

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