One of the most successful children’s books in the world tells the story of an insect: “The little caterpillar Nimmersatt” gave its author Eric Carle international recognition. For 50 years, the book is bought and read.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Probably the most famous caterpillar
50 years old and over 50 million sold – Eric Carles “small caterpillar glutton” eats still kicking by the children’s room in the world, plastered in fruit, cheese, lollipops, and much more. Eric Carle has written a hymn of praise to the gluttony. He tried with the book to entertain the “child”. In addition, it will tell “a hopeful story,” the 89-Year-old.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Children’s books instead of advertising
First of all, the American art Director was in a New York advertising Agency. A Map Illustration with a Lobster on it and it came out so well that the editor of a major publishing house commissioned him, for the children’s book “Brown bear, to draw who will see you?”. Carle made the work so much fun that he decided to become a children’s book author and illustrator.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Insect lovers
As a child, Eric Carle went for a walk with his father and the world of the insect was prompted to explain. So the idea to invent books about insects, in which animals such as caterpillars or beetles will be metaphors for the Child came to him later. His message to the children: “I can spread my wings (my talents), and in the world to fly.”
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Gluing and drawing
Eric Carle developed for children’s books such as “The little grasshopper sings their song” a special technique. He painted on thin tissue paper, it cuts out after Drying to the desired shape and glue the individual paper pieces to a picture. A technique he has of the Spanish painter Picasso was inspired.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Prompt to think for Themselves
More than 70 books published, Eric Carle, in his life, most of them he has not only illustrated, but also self-written. “The small beetle was always naughty” in 1977. It tells of a large mauligen beetle that wants to be with every create. In the end, he is humble, as another beetle generously shares with him his sheet.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Plea for more Serenity
“Very, very, slowly, said the sloth” was created in 2002 and tells the story of a lazy animal that lives in a tree. As to him the animals in the jungle to blame, it is lazy, because it is moving so little and no questions to answer, explains to you the sloth, it was a “quiet, slow, slack, bummelig”, but not guaranteed to be lazy. The work acts as a commentary on the modern, hectic life.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Probably the most famous caterpillar
50 years old and over 50 million sold – Eric Carles “small caterpillar glutton” eats still kicking by the children’s room in the world, plastered in fruit, cheese, lollipops, and much more. Eric Carle has written a hymn of praise to the gluttony. He tried with the book to entertain the “child”. In addition, it will tell “a hopeful story,” the 89-Year-old.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Children’s books instead of advertising
First of all, the American art Director was in a New York advertising Agency. A Map Illustration with a Lobster on it and it came out so well that the editor of a major publishing house commissioned him, for the children’s book “Brown bear, to draw who will see you?”. Carle made the work so much fun that he decided to become a children’s book author and illustrator.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Insect lovers
As a child, Eric Carle went for a walk with his father and the world of the insect was prompted to explain. So the idea to invent books about insects, in which animals such as caterpillars or beetles will be metaphors for the Child came to him later. His message to the children: “I can spread my wings (my talents), and in the world to fly.”
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Gluing and drawing
Eric Carle developed for children’s books such as “The little grasshopper sings their song” a special technique. He painted on thin tissue paper, it cuts out after Drying to the desired shape and glue the individual paper pieces to a picture. A technique he has of the Spanish painter Picasso was inspired.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Prompt to think for Themselves
More than 70 books published, Eric Carle, in his life, most of them he has not only illustrated, but also self-written. “The small beetle was always naughty” in 1977. It tells of a large mauligen beetle that wants to be with every create. In the end, he is humble, as another beetle generously shares with him his sheet.
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Empowering: Eric Carles Books Universe
Plea for more Serenity
“Very, very, slowly, said the sloth” was created in 2002 and tells the story of a lazy animal that lives in a tree. As to him the animals in the jungle to blame, it is lazy, because it is moving so little and no questions to answer, explains to you the sloth, it was a “quiet, slow, slack, bummelig”, but not guaranteed to be lazy. The work acts as a commentary on the modern, hectic life.
It’s Sunday morning. The little Eric is walking with the great Erich through the woods of Feuerbach, near Stuttgart. Erich turns to stones, from knibbelt tree bark and shows Eric the many small, hidden creatures, scurrying about busily in their micro-universe. The father explains to his son the ways of life of ants, beetles, and worms – then he puts them back carefully under the stone or under the tree bark.
“I think I can I write in my books, father, honor my by small creatures. And, in a way, I’ll start with the happy times again,” writes Illustrator Eric Carle on his website. His distinctive children’s books with his own collage technique, have been translated into more than 60 languages.
Cult book: “The little caterpillar Nimmersatt”
It towers over the plant now has around 70 illustrated books, the “very hungry caterpillar”. 50 years ago, for the first Time as a picture book published, it tells the story of a caterpillar with a ravenous Hunger. Page for page, she munches Apples, pears, plums, strawberries, oranges, then goes to chocolate cake, ice cream, sour pickle, cheese, sausage and candy. Of course, this ends up with abdominal pain, but also a transformation into a beautiful butterfly. “It’s the hope of history. You will like the very hungry caterpillar, a small and even ugly beast, large and beautifully unfold your wings, your Talent, and in the future, fly,” explains Eric Carle the unexpected, and timeless success of his story in an Interview for the German weekly magazine “Stern”.
A Happy ending, it was him and his father not meant to be. The Carles emigrated in the 1920s in search of work and a better life in the United States. In 1929, the son of Eric in Syracuse in the US was born in the state of New York. But when he was six, the family moved back to baden-württemberg Feuerbach. A momentous decision: When the Second world war of 1939 broke out, was drafted to the father immediately and became a Russian prisoner of war. The son was transported with his school class to the West wall and had to dig trenches. As the once-loving father of Eric, after eight years, returned from captivity, he was an emaciated wreck. The close bond between father and son was torn. “While he had lost the will to all life, I was to discover a new world,” recalls Eric Carle in an article for the magazine “Focus”.
Eric Carle (2009)
Studies in post-war Germany
After a successful study at the Academy of arts in Stuttgart, the castle Carle the circle of his biography and came back in 1952 in the USA. “I was not yet 23 years old, had a beautiful workbook, and $ 40 in the bag,” says the Illustrator. His courage paid off: First of all, he worked for many years in an advertising Agency. “The mid-1960s, Bill Martin Jr saw. to illustrate a display of a red lobster that I had designed, and asked me, ‘Brown bear, who see you?’. What an inspiring book! Now the large leaves, the colorful paints, and fat brushes came to me in my previous school. This opportunity has changed my life,” explains Eric Carle. He realized that it was sufficient to Illustrate, and so he began to write stories.
Ideas in boxes
“I started to make sketch books on my ideas and stored them in a small cardboard box. As I illustrated an historical cookbook, heard the editor of my idea box and asked me to see you. I have submitted ‘1,2,3 a train to the Zoo’,” says Carle. Even in his successful book “The little hungry caterpillar”, which was created in 1969, helped him a book editor on the jumps. As he her of his story about a worm who told holes through the sides of ate, advising him of the editor, Ann Beneduce, he should think of rather a different creature. “How about a caterpillar?”, have you asked him and he replied enthusiastically: “butterfly!” So the idea of the transformation of the very hungry caterpillar was born into a beautiful butterfly. A book with simple language and impressive images was the result. Until today, Eric Carle, may 25. June 90. Birthday known celebrates, mainly because of this narrow children’s book, which is to be found in children’s rooms around the world.
In the Museum Wilhelm Busch German Museum for caricature and drawing in Hanover, March 18. May to 8. September 2019 to see the exhibition “Eric Carles picture books: 50 years of ‘The kleine Raupe nimmersatt'”.