Eric Carle art of children's books in Amherst located adjacent to Hampshire College as part of the Hampshire College Cultural Village. The Museum has welcomed more than 500,000 visitors, including more than 30,000 school children, since it opened its doors in 2002. Eric Carle has received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities including Williams College in 2016, Smith College in 2014, Appalachian State University in 2013 and from Bates College in 2007. Google paid tribute to Carle and his book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by asking him to design the logo "Google doodle", introduced on its home page on March 20,
Eric, or, Little by Little the good and bad aspects of the traditional boys' school. He slowly gets beaten down by being punished erroneously for wrongdoings, getting bullied and such things as drinking, smoking and cheating. The end is tragic for Eric, as he loses everything. Along with Talbot Baines Reed's "The Fifth Form at St. Dominic’s" and Thomas Hughes' "Tom Brown's Schooldays", this book was one of three most popular boys' books in mid-Victorian Britain. The school is a thinly disguised cross between Farrar's own school King William's College in the Isle of Man, and Marlborough College, at which he was the master. The