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Eric Carle (Author)
Fish that fly, butterflies that dance, camels that “trollop along,” a tiger that has swallowed the sun–
Animals Animals!
In this commemorative volume, created especially for sharing, Eric Carle celebrates the broadest, liveliest cast of animals yet, illustrating a distinguished collection of poetry and lyrical pieces from sources as diverse as the Bible, Shakespeare, Japanese haiku, African Pygmy, Pawnee Indian, Eugene Field, Lewis Carroll, D. H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Judith Viorst, Issa, Ogden Nash, Jack Prelutsky, and X. J. Kennedy. With brilliant, full-color illustrations that reflect the highest level of artistic excellence, Carle invites the earth’s children–brothers, sisters, parents, teachers, friends, all–to glory in the sameness, the difference, and the wonder of the earth’s precious animals.
Author Biography
Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into 70 languages and sold over 55 million copies. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. In 2003, Carle received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children’s Literature Legacy Award) for lifetime achievement in children’s literature. In 2002, Eric and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (
Number of Pages: 96Dimensions: 0.8 x 11.3 x 9.2 INIllustrated: YesPublication Date: September 06, 1989
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