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About the Author

Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into more than 80 languages and sold over 60 million copies. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 180 million copies of his books have sold around the world. In 2003, Carle received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award) for lifetime achievement in children's literature. In 2002, Eric and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, a 40,000-square-foot space dedicated to the celebration of picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world, underscoring the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of picture books and their art form. Eric Carle passed away in May 2021 at the age of 91. His work remains an important influence on artists and illustrators at work today. Eric Carle es reconocido y apreciado por ser el creador de albumes ilustrados para la primera infancia con disenos innovadores e ilustraciones geniales. Su obra mas popular, The Very Hungry Caterpillar (publicada en espanol como La Oruga Muy Hambrienta), se ha traducido a mas de 80 idiomas y ha vendido mas de 60 millones de ejemplares. Carle ilustr mas de 70 libros que han vendido mas de 180 millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Muchos de ellos son titulos superventas, y la mayoria tambien fueron escritos por el. En el 2003, Carle recibi el premio Laura Ingalls Wilder, que ahora se conoce como el premio Children's Literature Legacy (legado de literatura infantil), por sus logros de toda una vida dedicada a la literatura infantil. En el 2002, Eric y su esposa, Barbara, fundaron The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, un museo de mas de 3700 metros cuadrados dedicado a la celebraci n de albumes ilustrados y de ilustraciones para este tipo de libros realizadas en todo el mundo, para resaltar asi el significado cultural, hist rico y artistico de los albumes ilustrados y de esta forma de arte. Eric Carle falleci en mayo del 2021, a los noventa y un anos. Su obra continoa influenciando de manera importante a artistas e ilustradores de hoy.