The Very Hungry Caterpillar is celebrating its 45th Anniversary on 20th March 2014, the first day of Spring and to celebrate we're inviting you to send in your Qs to author Eric Carle. We'll choose ten questions to send over to Eric and if your question is selected and answered you will win a special 45th anniversary edition of The Hungry caterpillar.
Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of books for very young children. He was born in New York, but spent his early life in Germany. He returned to the States in his early twenties and worked as a graphic designer for the New York Times. He went on to be the art director of an advertising agency before he began writing and illustrating children's books. Eric lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Barbara. The Carles opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts in 2002.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar remains one of the most read children’s book in the UK, selling over 36 million copies worldwide since its publication in 1969 and translated into more than 55 languages. It is known that The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold the equivalent of a copy per minute since its release, with researchers estimating that the perennial classic is read an average of nine times a year by the nation’s 5.5 million primary school children.
Post your Qs to Eric before midday on Friday 21 March and we'll link to his answers in early April.