Huffington Post -Posted: 02/11/2013 4:01
Get excited, Butterflies: Eric Carle's new book, Friends, is coming out this fall. The beloved author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is now 83 years old, and his new book is about "the love that binds people and the obstacles they will overcome in order to be together," according to a press release put out today by Penguin Books.
And we have an exclusive reveal of the cover, below!
The press release quotes Carle as saying, “Friends dates back to 1952, when I was a 22 year greenhorn who arrived in New York City from Germany, speaking poor English and carrying a cardboard suitcase and a portfolio of my graphic designs. It was my good luck to meet Leo Lionni, then the Art Director of Fortune magazine, who became my mentor."
"Upon his recommendation I got my first job in the new world as a graphic designer with The New York Times. After that a loose and infrequent friendship with Leo developed that lasted until his death in 1999. Friends started out as a tribute to Leo Lionni, but the story somehow swerved into the story of another friendship, that of two small children. All friendships are somehow connected.”
Lionni himself was a prominent children's book designer who was shortlisted four times for a Caldicott medal, awarded each year by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's books. You can read more about him here.
Eric Carle published The Very Hungry Caterpillar in 1969, his third book to be published, and it has been in print ever since. He has illustrated 67 books, and now has his own museum of picture book art, in Amherst, MA.
And we have an exclusive reveal of the cover, below!
The press release quotes Carle as saying, “Friends dates back to 1952, when I was a 22 year greenhorn who arrived in New York City from Germany, speaking poor English and carrying a cardboard suitcase and a portfolio of my graphic designs. It was my good luck to meet Leo Lionni, then the Art Director of Fortune magazine, who became my mentor."
"Upon his recommendation I got my first job in the new world as a graphic designer with The New York Times. After that a loose and infrequent friendship with Leo developed that lasted until his death in 1999. Friends started out as a tribute to Leo Lionni, but the story somehow swerved into the story of another friendship, that of two small children. All friendships are somehow connected.”
Lionni himself was a prominent children's book designer who was shortlisted four times for a Caldicott medal, awarded each year by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's books. You can read more about him here.
Eric Carle published The Very Hungry Caterpillar in 1969, his third book to be published, and it has been in print ever since. He has illustrated 67 books, and now has his own museum of picture book art, in Amherst, MA.
