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Eric Carle
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American author and illustrator for children (1929–2021)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Very Hungry Caterpillar Eats Dinner
- Baby Bear's Time to Grow with Brown Bear and Friends (World of Eric Carle)
- The World of Eric Carle Craft and Collage
- World of Eric Carle
- The Weather Report
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Film & TV
Writing · Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Eric Carle (born June 25, 1929) is an American designer, illustrator, and writer of children's books. He is, perhaps, most noted for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a picture book that has been translated into more than 66 languages. He has illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
- Eric Carle, Picture Writer: The Art of the Picture Book — Himself2011
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929
- Active to
- 2021
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,140
- Total plays
- 29,356
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 101
- Cited by
- 540
Research areas
Most cited works
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar2000 · 212 cit
- The Very Busy Spider1984 · 30 cit
- The Grouchy Ladybug1977 · 30 cit
- From Head to Toe1997 · 27 cit
- The Tiny Seed1970 · 25 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,871x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,781x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,745x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 25,636x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,173x
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Quotes
- “On Saturday, he ate through 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. That night he had a stomach ache.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1929-06-25 ) June 25, 1929, Syracuse, New York , US
- Died
- May 23, 2021 (2021-05-23) (aged 91), Northampton, Massachusetts , US
- Occupation
- Author designer illustrator
- Alma mater
- State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Genre
- Children's picture books
- Years active
- 1963–2021
- Notable works
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar The Grouchy Ladybug Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
- Notable awards
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal , 2003
- Spouse
- Barbara Morrison Carle, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1973 ; died 2015 )
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- eric-carle.com
- Image
- Eric Carle kinderboekenschrijver, 1988 - 28.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1929-06-25
- official blog URL
- ericcarleblog.blogspot.com
- floruit
- 2003-01-01
- social media followers
- 85420
- Commons category
- Eric Carle
- date of death
- 2021-05-23
- name in native language
- Eric Carle
- P8168
- Catherine Grand
- P12674
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Article
Eric Carle (June 25, 1929 – May 23, 2021) was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Carle's career as an illustrator and children's book author accelerated after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. Carle illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.
Early life, family, and education