Eric Carle
Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York on June 25, 1929. When he was six his family moved to Germany. It was hard for Eric to leave his home and friends. He still remembers how important friendship is to a child's heart.
As a young boy his father took him on walks through the woods and they investigated insects and other little creatures that lived there. He loved to learn about nature and now shares that love with children through his books.
He shares that it is important to plan and think about and rewrite your story before you are ready for the final illustrations. He tells the story that his Uncle August would pretend to have a thinking machine in his forehead that needed to be wound up before he could tell a story. Thinking is what writing and reading is all about.
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Eric Carle makes many of his illustrations out of tissue paper that he has painted with designs. He uses the cut-and-glue collage process to make his illustrations. These unusual patterns work together to make unusually beautiful pictures.
Try to color or paint on tissue paper. Use many different colors and designs. Don't think about what you will make until all the tissue paper is ready. Now make a plan. Cut and glue a picture. Save the leftovers in a box. You will probably have enough tissue paper to make several pictures.
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