
Here visitors of all ages can enjoy, in addition to Eric Carle's work, original artwork by other distinguished children's book illustrators from around the world. In 2002, fifty years after Carle's return to the United States, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art was opened in Amherst, Massachusetts. 10 LITTLE RUBBER DUCKS BOARD BOOK 9780061964282 Carle takes an actual incident, when numerous bathtub toys fell off a container ship and floated to. In 1952, after graduating from the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, he fulfilled his dream of returning to New York.Įric Carle received many distinguished awards and honours for his work, including, in 2003, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifetime contribution to children's literature and illustration. However, when he was just six, he moved with his parents to Germany. Eric Carle was the creator of more than seventy picture books for young readers.Įric Carle was born in New York, USA.
