Born:
1929 -
Syracuse,
New York,
United
States
of
America.
Current
Home:
Massachusetts,
United
States
of
America.
Eric
Carle
started
drawing
when he
was a
little
boy and
has
asserted
that he
“will
never
stop
being a
scribbler.”
Born in
Syracuse,
New York,
in 1929,
he spent
his
early
childhood
in
America
before
moving
to
Germany
at the
age of
six.
Carle
learned
German
and
studied
at the
prestigious
Academy
of
Visual
Arts
before
fulfilling
his
dream of
returning
to the
U.S. in
1952.
After
working
as a
graphic
designer
and art
director
of an
advertising
agency,
Carle
collaborated
with
Bill
Martin,
Jr. on
Brown
Bear,
Brown
Bear,
What Do
You See?,
launching
his
remarkable
career
as a
beloved
children's
book
illustrator.
Since
then
Carle
has also
written
and
illustrated
many
well-known
titles
such as
The
Grouchy
Ladybug
and The
Very
Hungry
Caterpillar,
which
has been
translated
into
more
than 30
languages.
To
create
his
beautiful
pictures,
Carle
uses the
technique
of
collage.
He loves
it when
students
tell him
they can
make
pictures
in the
same way!
Carle
first
paints
over
colored
tissue
paper
with
acrylic
paint —
sometimes
using a
wide
brush,
sometimes
a narrow
brush,
sometimes
his
fingertips,
and
often
using a
sponge,
burlap,
or other
bumpy
material
like a
stamp to
create
texture.
Then he
cuts out
shapes
in the
colored
papers (which
he
stores
in
color-coded
drawers
after
they dry)
to make
the
different
parts of
his
scenes
and
characters.
Most of
Eric
Carle's
characters
are
animals,
and he
thinks
this
might be
his
father's
influence:
when he
was
growing
up,
Carle and his
dad
would go
on walks
in the
forest.
They
would
stop and
observe
all the
little
animals
and
insects
living
there,
and
Carle's
father
would
tell him
about
how they
live and
grow.
Growth
and
discovery
are
major
themes
in
Carle's
books.
He says
that
moving
from
home to
school
was
“traumatic”
for him,
and he
hopes
that his
books,
many of
which
are not
only
beautifully
illustrated
but have
cutouts,
flaps,
raised
textures,
and
lights
and
sound,
are
“half
toy and
half
book” to
show
young
readers
that
growth
and
change
can be a
lot of
fun.
Carle
lives
with his
wife
Bobbie
and cat
Annie in
Massachusetts.
He has
two
grown-up
children,
his
daughter
Cirsten
and son
Rolf.
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