Eric Carle, the author of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" as well as books such as "Do You Want to Be My Friend" and "The Grouchy Ladybug," died earlier this week. He was 91 years old.

Readers familiar with Carle's famous children's book illustrations – his bestseller is The Very Hungry Caterpillar — would recognize this meticulous attention to detail.

The author and illustrator Eric Carle, who has died at 91, enjoyed a prolific 55-year publishing career.In that time he illustrated over 70 books, the majority of which he also wrote, and which in ...

The esteemed author of famous children’s literature such as “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” Eric Carle, died on Wednesday according to a family statement. He was 91-years-old.

Eric Carle, Creator Of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' Dies At 91 The beloved author and illustrator drew more than 70 books for kids — often about friendly bugs like that famous caterpillar. He ...

Like the unstoppable caterpillar in his most famous work, Eric Carle invested a great deal of effort into making his best-selling children’s books take flight. “My books are not simple,” he ...

Beloved children’s author Eric Carle died on Sunday. Carle, famous for writing “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and many other books, was born in Syracuse in 1929, the son of German immigrants ...

In late May 2021, famed children’s book artist and author Eric Carle died at the age of 91. Soon after his death, Twitter users shared a quote purportedly from an interview with Carle, claiming ...

Well over 100 visitors stood in line at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art on Wednesday afternoon for a chance to meet “Magic Tree House” author Mary Pope Osborne. Osborne, an advocate and ...

Eric Carle wrote books that refuse to stay on the shelf. In bookstores, of course, his titles have vanished from shelves for decades, whisked off in the millions by parents and grandparents, by ...

Times staff share personal memories of reading the children's books of Eric Carle, the "Very Hungry Caterpillar" author who died this week at 91.