I was floored that it chirped at the end. His family announced that the artist, illustrator and writer, “passed away peacefully and surrounded by family members on at his summer studio in Northampton, Massachusetts.”Īs soon as I heard, I thought of the Christmas we got “The Very Quiet Cricket.” Like all Carle’s books, it was vibrantly colorful, in his signature tissue paper collage illustrations. The lifetime bond his works created between kids and parents speaks volumes about his genius and legacy. The iconic children’s book author and illustrator, who has a studio and children’s museum in Massachusetts, died last week at age 91. I got a text from my mom last week that made my heart sink: “Eric Carle died.”Īll over Twitter, I saw that other people heard the news the same way- their parent or called, their grown children texted. The two married in 1973 and moved to Northampton.Columns share an author's personal perspective and are often based on facts in the newspaper's reporting. Carle was introduced to Barbara Morrison, known as Bobbie, a Montessori teacher who was working in the bookshop at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s medieval branch in Upper Manhattan.
He is survived by their children, Rolf and Cirsten Carle, and a sister, Christa Bareis.Īfter his divorce, Mr. His marriage to Dorothea Wohlenberg in 1953 ended in divorce in 1963. Carle wrote and illustrated his second book, “1, 2, 3 to the Zoo,” the following year. Carle had created and asked him to illustrate his children’s book “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?,” which was published in 1967.
His career in children’s books began when the educator and author Bill Martin Jr. “The grays, browns and dirty greens used by the Nazis to camouflage the buildings” only heightened his love for intense and joyful colors, he told The Times in 2007.Īfter his military service he went back to work at The Times, then left the paper in 1963 to be a freelance artist. He’d tell me about the life cycles of this or that small creature, and then he would carefully put the little creature back into its home.” “He would lift a stone or peel back the bark of a tree and show me the living things that scurried about. “When I was a small boy, my father would take me on walks across meadows and through woods,” Mr.
His mother, Johanna (Öelschlager) Carle, worked at a family business, and his father, Erich Carle, worked in a factory spray-painting washing machines. was born on June 25, 1929, in Syracuse, N.Y., to German immigrants. Martin, the Beverly Cleary professor for children and youth services at the University of Washington, told The Atlantic magazine in 2019 that if you don’t have a good grasp of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” “you are children’s-book illiterate.”Įric Carle Jr. Carle often used the term “art art” to refer to his more abstract and playful projects, like his work with tissue paper, to distinguish them from the more conventional and commercial illustrations he also did throughout his career. In 2003, he received the prestigious Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children’s Literature Legacy Award) from the American Library Association, which recognizes authors and illustrators whose books have created a lasting contribution to children’s literature. Carle published over his career, selling more than 170 million copies, according to his publisher, Penguin Random House. Carle’s best-known book, has sold more than 55 million copies around the world since it was first published in 1969, its mere 224 words translated into more than 70 languages. His death, which was announced on Wednesday, was caused by kidney failure, his son, Rolf, said. When a fictional caterpillar chomps through one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries, five oranges, one piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake and one slice of watermelon, it might get a stomach ache.īut it might also become the star of one of the best-selling children’s books of all time.Įric 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 summer studio in Northampton, Mass.
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