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,
The Very Hungry Caterpillar cocoon around himself. There, inside he sleeps in it for 2 weeks. Later, the caterpillar emerges as a handsome butterfly with large, gorgeous, multi-coloured wings. In a sense the book was inspired by a hole punch: "One day I was punching holes with a hole puncher into a stack of paper, and I thought of a bookworm and so I created a story called "A Week with Willi the Worm"." Carle was familiar with "differently shaped pages" from books that he read as a child in Germany. "A Week with Willi the Worm" featured a bookworm named Willi. But Carle's