Eric Carle Essay

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Jessica Eric Carle was born June 25 1929, in Syracuse New York. When Carle was just six years old his mother Johanna decided to move the family back to Germany. It was in Germany that he attended and graduated from ABK-Stuttgart. In 1952, with a measly forty dollars to his name, Carle packed up and returned back to New York City (Eric Carle). After his move back to the states he landed a job at the New York Times working as a graphic designer in the promotions department. After discharge from the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Eric returned to his job at the New York Times and later landed the job title of the art director over an advertising agency (Eric Carle). The launch to Carles’ career as a children’s book illustrator and author happened when he joined forces with Bill Martin and came up with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Carle is also well known for some of his other books such as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has been translated into more than thirty different languages ("Biography Eric Carle."). Among the many awards Carle has received for his books is the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the Association for Library Service to Children, American Library Association, 2003” (Awards list). When it comes to his illustrations Carle uses a technique that is known as collage. He first takes colored tissue paper and paints over it will different types of brushes, sponges, his fingers, stamps, and different materials to create a texture. After the tissue paper is dried Carle cuts different shapes out of the colored paper and stores it in bins that are color-coded and uses these to create the animals and other parts of his scenes (“Biography Eric Carle”).” Most of Eric Carle's characters are animals, and he thinks this might be his father's influence: when he was growing up, Carle and his dad would go on walks in

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