Eric Carle 2009, celebrating the first day of spring. He also designed a "Google doodle" with autumnal theme for the use in Southern Hemisphere. "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" was chosen by Jumpstart for Young Children as the book for Read For the Record 2009 on October 8 of that year. The program encourages educators, librarians and parents to try to have as many as possible read the same book on the same day all over the world. Carle has won numerous awards for his work in children's literature, including the Japan Picture Book Award, the Regina Medal and the Lifetime Achievement Award
Glenn Carle Glenn Carle Glenn Carle is an American writer and former intelligence officer. He is the author of "The Interrogator: An Education" (2011), which describes his involvement in the interrogation of a man at the time believed to be one of the top members of al-Qa'ida. Glenn Carle grew up in Brookline, a town part of greater Boston, in a house "where four generations of his family made their home". Carle received a B.A. in Government at Harvard and in 1985 an M.A. in European Studies and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and completed