Who Is....

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Who Is....
ERIC CARLE
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Eric Carle
Eric Carle is an author and an illustrator. He
writes and illustrates childrens books like The
Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown
Bear.
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What was his first book ?
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?
1,2,3 To The Zoo
The first book that he illustrated.
His first book he wrote and illustrated by
himself,
followed shortly by.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Distinctive Art Work

• Hand-paints tissue papers
• Uses a variety of art tools to create variety of
  textures
• Tears or cuts painted papers
• Creates collage illustrations
• Often adds sensory features sound effects,
  raised printing, lights
• Other playful features die-cut pages,
  transparent pages

"A toy that can be read, a book that can be
touched."
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Where does he live?
Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, New
York.
Now he lives with his wife, Bobbie in
Northampton, Massachusetts.
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What comes first, the story or the
pictures ?
Eric Carle says, To me, pictures need writing
and writing needs pictures.
The idea comes first!
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How does Eric Carle make his
pictures ?
http//www.eric-carle.com/photogallery.html
His pictures are like collages. He starts by
painting lots of plain tissue paper with
different colors. Then when he wants to make a
picture, he cuts different shapes out of the
painted tissue paper and glues it all together.
http//www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm
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Some Books By Eric Carle
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What is Eric Carles favorite book that he has
written?
Do You Want To Be My Friend?
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Credits

• 1. Yahoo! Search Images
• http//images.search.yahoo.com/search/
  images?periccarlesp1eiUTF-8frieasSpellSta
  ten-4187300233_q-NrndlX5hc0edb7IiND/XwQABAA_at__at_
• 2. The Official Eric Carle Website
• http//www.eric-carle.com/
• MarcoPolo National Geographic Xpeditions
• www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
  
• 3. Merger of Eric Carle Powerpoints from TIM and
  Laurie Sheperson

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How can you get in touch with Eric Carle?
You may send letters via snail mail to Eric
Carle, P.O. Box 485, Northampton, MA 01060, USA.
You are also welcome to leave him a message in
the guestbook on his official web site at
http//www.eric-carle.com/guest.
html.
I love to hear from my fans!

Eric Carle