![]() ![]() “It’s a profession for young men and women,” he said in Show Me A Story. Although he enjoyed the job, like many people approaching 40, he had become disillusioned with the way his career was going. ![]() In the mid-1960s, Carle was a graphic designer working in advertising in New York. ![]() If you have children, the chances are you’ve read The Very Hungry Caterpillar at least once this year, perhaps this week, maybe even uttered the words “That night he had a stomach ache” this morning. It’s a behemoth of the publishing world, a book that surpassed all expectations and, 51 years since publication, remains ever-present on book sales charts, notching up more than 50 million sales worldwide and is read on average nine times a year by each child in the UK.īut how did Eric Carle , who passed away in May aged 91, go from a creative in the Mad Men-era ad industry to writing one of the most popular children’s books of all time? And why do we have a hole puncher to thank? ![]()
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