Eric Carle, the beloved children's author and illustrator whose classic "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and other works gave millions of kids some of their earliest and most cherished literary ...

On the colorful grounds of illustrator Eric Carle's Massachusetts home, even the most insignificant weeds play a pivotal part in his garden palette. Everything has its place: Red and orange ...

Eric Carle, the writer and illustrator who delighted millions of youngsters with “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and other classic picture books that captured the riotous colors and imaginative ...

View more opinion on CNN. The world has lost two giants of children’s literature. Eric Carle, the creator of 70 picture books for children and adults passed away Sunday at 91, and Lois Ehlert ...

When illustrator Eric Carle was a child ... and a bear make up a forest menagerie; a sea turtle swims smiling through the ocean; seeds grow in the dirt and bloom; the sun rises and sets over ...

Iconic and groundbreaking author, illustrator, and fine artist Eric Carle, whose vibrant tissue-paper collage The Very Hungry Caterpillar memorably chomped its way through the pages of a new style ...

Beloved children’s author Eric Carle died on Sunday. Carle, famous for writing “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and many other books, was born in Syracuse in 1929, the son of German immigrants.

Jennifer Schantz, the incoming executive director of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, is “delighted” to be stepping into that position on Sept. 18, and applying her ...

Eric Carle's picture books were often about insects. Spiders, lady bugs, crickets and of course, that famous caterpillar, all as colorful and friendly as Carle himself. The Very Hungry Caterpillar ...

Carle is known for his collage images and imaginative stories. Eric Carle, the author of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" as well as books such as "Do You Want to Be My Friend" and "The Grouchy ...

A beloved member of the children’s literature canon has died. Eric Carle, the author and illustrator of dog-eared classics such as “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” passed away May 23 at 91 ...

Eric Carle, the artist and author who created that creature in his book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” a tale that has charmed generations of children and parents alike, died on Sunday at his ...