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Dear Friends, I will be traveling to Massachusetts next month and visiting with friends and family. And on Sunday, August 23rd at Noon, I will be making my annual appearance at The Eric Carle [...]

The colorful patterns on the inside covers of my books are called end sheets or end papers. An end sheet is like a theatre curtain in that it appears at the beginning, before the play starts, and [...]

In the second year of the Second World War — I had just turned 12, my maternal grandmother remembered from her youth a farm girl she had known. Off went a postcard: could Eric spend the summer [...]

I received many lovely e-mails and letters this spring including these beautiful photographs of pictures from a book created by school children in Portugal. I hope you will enjoy these too! Eric Carle

Dear Friends, Here I am with my mother in 1934 in Syracuse, NY. I was 5 years old when this photograph was taken, and now I am 80 years old. Many things have happened between then and now, but I [...]

Sometimes, readers ask me why a number of my books have the word “Very” in the title. After The Very Hungry Caterpillar had been published I wanted to create a “Very” quartet. Why a [...]

Dear Friends, A recent burst of color in my neighborhood! Eric Carle

Dear Friends, Art is often thought of as a painting or sculpture in a museum. And while this is true, it is only partially so. We tend to overlook things of beauty that surround us in our daily [...]

Dear Friends, I sometimes like to create abstract pieces using my painted tissue paper sheets, as well as other materials such as silk fabric, plate glass, plastic sheathing and aluminum foil. I [...]

Dear Friends, While I’ve cut back a good deal on the number of book signings I do, I still make a few scheduled appearances each year. Recently, I signed copies of my books and gave a [...]