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
Lancelot de Carle was accused of. Although the poem was not published until 1545, it was widely circulated previously. Whether or not Carle was involved in its distribution or later publication is unclear. In June 1537, after Carle had returned to France, Henry VIII learned about the poem and wrote to Stephen Gardiner, his ambassador in Paris:Has received his sundry letters, ... "with the French book, written in form of a tragedy, sent unto us by the same," ... Wonders that on his first having knowledge of the said book and the malice of it, he did not apply to the French king