Eric Carle die-cut pages, foldouts, and other innovative uses of page space." In a 2012 survey of "School Library Journal" readers, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" was voted the number two children's picture book behind "Where the Wild Things Are". Eric Carle Eric Carle (born June 25, 1929) is an American designer, illustrator, and writer of children's books. He is most noted for "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", a picture book that has been translated into more than 65 languages and sold more than 46 million copies, which is equivalent to 1.7 copies sold every minute since it was published. Since it was published
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