Eric Carle's Animals Animals

Commendation Quotes: Busy, busy, busy, busy, Busy little squirrel -- Running, running, jumping, In a dizzy whirl. . . . Phyllis HalloranJacket Description/Back: Busy, busy, busy, busy, Busy little squirrel -- Running, running, jumping, In a dizzy whirl.... Phyllis HalloranReview Quotes: From leaping flying fish to dancing butterflies and camels that "trollop along", Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses, Japanese haiku, American Indian poems, and more. This celebration of the wonder and variety of earth's animals is "joyous ... a book to be shared" (* Booklist, starred review). Marc Notes: Poems compiled by Laura Whipple.; Includes indexes.; An illustrated collection of poems by a variety of authors describing the peculiarities of pets and wild and domestic animals.; All ages--P. [4] of cover. Publisher Marketing: From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses, Japanese haiku, American Indian poems and more. This celebration of the wonder and variety of earth's animals is "joyous...a book to be shared" (Booklist, starred review). Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/11/1999 pg. 78 (EAN 9780698118553, Paperback) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 291 (EAN 9780698118553, Paperback) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 413 (EAN 9780698118553, Paperback) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 652 (EAN 9780698118553, Paperback) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 330 (EAN 9780399217449, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 355 (EAN 9780399217449, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 291 (EAN 9780399217449, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 07/28/1989 (EAN 9780399217449, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 413 (EAN 9780399217449, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 652 (EAN 9780399217449, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Carle, Eric Eric Carle is the creator of more than seventy picture books for young readers. Eric Carle was born in New York, USA. However, when he was just six, he moved with his parents to Germany. In 1952, after graduating from the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Stuttgart, he fulfilled his dream of returning to New York. Eric Carle has received many distinguished awards and honours for his work, including, in 2003, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifetime contribution to children's literature and illustration. In 2002, fifty years after Carle's return to the United States, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art was opened in Amherst, Massachusetts. Here visitors of all ages can enjoy, in addition to Eric Carle's work, original artwork by other distinguished children's book illustrators from around the world. Eric Carle es el creador de mas de setenta libros ilustrados para ninos. Nacio en Syracuse, Nueva York, pero a los seis anos de edad se traslado con sus padres a Alemania. En 1952, tras graduarse de la prestigiosa Akademie der Bildenden Kunste de Stuttgart, logro cumplir su sueno de regresar a Nueva York. Ha recibido muchos e importantes premios y distinciones, entre ellos el Laura Ingalls Wilder Award en 2003, por su aportacion global a la literatura y a la ilustracion infantil. En 2002, cincuenta anos despues de su regreso a los Estados Unidos, se inauguro en Amherst, Massachusetts, el Museo Eric Carle de Libros Ilustrados, donde se exhibe, ademas de la obra completa de Eric Carle, un buen numero de originales de los mas destacados ilustradores de libros infantiles del mundo entero. Contributor Bio:  Whipple, Laura Whipple is an elementary school media specialist in New Jersey. She graduated from the Rutgers University Graduate School of Communication.