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What's your favorite bug?

Eric Carle and fourteen other beloved children's book artists illustrate their favorite bugs and explain why they love them. Everybody has a favorite bug. Some like shiny, colorful beetles or busy ants or soft pale moths best. Others prefer spindly walking sticks or fuzzy caterpillars that turn into...

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Main Authors: Carle, Eric (Author, Artist), Fleming, Denise, 1950- (Author, Artist), White, Teagan (Author, Artist), Krommes, Beth (Author, Artist), Rudy, Maggie (Author, Artist), Magoon, Scott (Author, Artist), Idle, Molly Schaar (Author, Artist), Holmes, Ekua (Author, Artist), Hopgood, Tim (Author, Artist), Pak, Kenard (Author, Artist), Wenzel, Brendan (Author, Artist), Teckentrup, Britta (Author, Artist), Fan, Eric (Author, Artist), Yelchin, Eugene (Author, Artist), Chou, Joey (Author, Artist)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Insects in art > Juvenile nonfiction.
Insects > Juvenile nonfiction.
Spiders > Juvenile nonfiction.
Picture books.
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Summary:Eric Carle and fourteen other beloved children's book artists illustrate their favorite bugs and explain why they love them. Everybody has a favorite bug. Some like shiny, colorful beetles or busy ants or soft pale moths best. Others prefer spindly walking sticks or fuzzy caterpillars that turn into bright butterflies. With beautiful illustrations and charming personal stories, 15 children's book artists share their favorite bugs and why they love them. Featuring words and pictures by: Eric Carle, Joey Chou, Eric Fan, Denise Fleming, Ekua Holmes, Tim Hopgood, Molly Idle, Beth Krommes, Scott Magoon, Kenard Pak, Maggie Rudy, Britta Teckentrup, Brendan Wenzel, Teagan White, and Eugene Yelchin.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
ISBN:9781250151759
1250151759
Author Notes:Eric Carle is an award-winning, children's picture book author and illustrator whose most recognized work is The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book. Carle was born to German parents in 1929 in Syracuse, New York. The family returned to Germany in 1935, moving to a suburb of Stuttgart. Carle disliked high school, quitting at the age of 16 before graduation. He was admitted as the youngest student to the Akademie der bildenden Kunste, an art school.

After finishing at the Akademie, he worked as a poster designer for the U.S. Information Center in Germany until 1952, when he moved back to New York City. He was a graphic designer at the New York Times and later worked as an art director at L.W. Frohlich & Co. In 1963, Bill Martin, Jr. saw a poster of a red lobster that Carle had designed and asked him to illustrate Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, thus launching his freelance career. Among his many children's books are Dream Snow, Hello, Red Fox, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle, and Pancakes, Pancakes! His title The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse made Publisher's Weekly Best Seller List for 2011. His title Brown Bear Brown Bear What to You See? made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. In 2015 he made The New Zealand Best Seller List with Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Eric Carle, beloved children's book author and illustrator, died on May 23, 2021. He was 91.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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