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“Where do ideas come from?” is an often-asked question that cannot be easily answered. One child, who wrote to me, asked this question, then went on to tell me that ideas come from both your [...]

I would like to tell you about an exciting event. In the Fall of 1997, Mr. Fred Rogers and his film crew came to visit me in my studio. They taped a 10-minute segment for the Mister Rogers’ [...]

How I Came to Write for Older Readers In my late 30’s Bill Martin Jr came across one of my illustrations for an advertising campaign and asked me to illustrate a book he had written called Brown [...]

“Over the years I have demonstrated to young children the basics of color theory developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I ask them to tell me what the opposite of black is. ’White!’ the [...]

Will tour its black light puppetry productions based on my books in North America and Japan. For more information, please visit www.mermaidtheatre.ca or contact The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia [...]

Produced by JWR Productions, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show features a menagerie of 75 enchanting puppets based on my books for the stage. For more information, please visit [...]

Very Eric Carle: A Very Hungry, Quiet, Lonely, Clumsy, Busy Exhibit This traveling exhibition is co-organized by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art [...]

Thank you to Peter Sis for a lovely visit last week. If you have a chance to see his exhibit at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art it is magical!