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Lunar New Year with the Very Hungry Caterpillar a tabbed board book

Celebrate the festive traditions of the Lunar New Year with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Discover beautiful dragons, glowing lanterns, treasured animals, and more in this tabbed board book with easy-to-flip tabs and easy-to-read text featuring The Very Hungry Caterpillar. With Eric Carle's bright, c...

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Main Author: Carle, Eric
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : World of Eric Carle, 2025.
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New Year > Juvenile fiction.
Lunar New Year > Juvenile fiction.
Board books.
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Summary:Celebrate the festive traditions of the Lunar New Year with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Discover beautiful dragons, glowing lanterns, treasured animals, and more in this tabbed board book with easy-to-flip tabs and easy-to-read text featuring The Very Hungry Caterpillar. With Eric Carle's bright, colorful illustrations, this is the perfect addition to every child's library and a wonderful gift for the Lunar New Year!
Item Description:On board pages
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN:9798217050840
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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