Eric Carle's Animals, Animals

Fish that fly, butterflies that dance, camels that "trollop along," a tiger that has swallowed the sun--Animals Animals!

In this commemorative volume, created especially for sharing, Eric Carle celebrates the broadest, liveliest cast of animals yet, illustrating a distinguished collection of poetry and lyrical pieces from sources as diverse as the Bible, Shakespeare, Japanese haiku, African Pygmy, Pawnee Indian, Eugene Field, Lewis Carroll, D. H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Judith Viorst, Issa, Ogden Nash, Jack Prelutsky, and X. J. Kennedy.

With brilliant, full-color illustrations that reflect the highest level of artistic excellence, Carle invites the earth's children--brothers, sisters, parents, teachers, friends, all--to glory in the sameness, the difference, and the wonder of the earth's precious animals.

About the Author: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, written by Eric Carle has earned the author great recognition. Eric Carle was born in New York. However, much of his early life was spent in Germany. He has been working for the New York Times, as a Graphic Designer, after which he became the Art Director at a certain advertising agency. Here, he began to write and illustrate books for children. He and his family have opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts, in the year 2002.