RootAnn Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/26/business/eric-carle-death/index.html Announced today. Died Sunday. 91 yrs old 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Awww, this is making me tear up. I read his books so often. Thank you for your beautiful books! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not_a_Number Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Aw, that's sad 😞 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BakersDozen Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 OK, I'm crying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena1277 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 I just read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to my 5yo at bedtime tonight. When she picked it, I thought about how it was one of my favorite children’s stories. 😢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Lois Ehlert also died today. (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom illustrator) 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth86 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Yes and I made the mistake of telling my kids at bedtime. I thought nothing of it as I told them when Beverly Cleary died without much of a reaction. My 8 year started crying and wanted to know why all his favorite authors were dying, first Beverly Clearly then Eric Carle. He said that he hoped Eric Carle went to heaven. 😭 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam in CT Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Awwwwww. Draw Me a Star when you get there, Mr Carle. What a life well lived. If anyone has a chance to visit the Eric Carle museum in Amherst MA... it's a wonder. With or without kids. In addition to great gobs of Carle's original collages for all the books, there are traveling exhibits of other children's illustrators and a wonderful open studio with materials for particular projects kinda-sorta loosely based on one of the current exhibits. And a wonderful children's bookstore. Next door to a yuge apple farm/farmers market with cider donuts and a great cafe. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryl Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 OH! Such memories reading his books to dd when she was a lil tyke! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 I love his books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBK Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 My daughter wrote to him when she was six as part of a letters to favorite authors project. Understandably she received a form postcard for a response, but it was still special. Some of the exhibits from the museum Pam mentioned came to our city's museum for a while, and it was so cool to see his stuff in embryo, photos of him standing on a big white sheet with a broom to scoot the paint around to get that brushy effect. 🙂 When I was growing up in the nineties, his work was so omnipresent that I figured he had always been around, a classic like Laura ingalls Wilder or something. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 2 hours ago, Pam in CT said: Awwwwww. Draw Me a Star when you get there, Mr Carle. What a life well lived. If anyone has a chance to visit the Eric Carle museum in Amherst MA... it's a wonder. With or without kids. In addition to great gobs of Carle's original collages for all the books, there are traveling exhibits of other children's illustrators and a wonderful open studio with materials for particular projects kinda-sorta loosely based on one of the current exhibits. And a wonderful children's bookstore. Next door to a yuge apple farm/farmers market with cider donuts and a great cafe. I was going to post about the museum as well. It is really wonderful! We got to see the Paddington Bear exhibit when we were there a couple years ago, including the original bear! May you Rest In Peace Mr. Carle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Awww, I love his books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 He provided whimsy and creativity that made reading so much fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innisfree Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 5 hours ago, Pam in CT said: What a life well lived. This. When my kids were little, I used to think about how authors and illustrators of children's books bring so much joy and enrichment to so many people. We'd read books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar or Brown Bear, Brown Bear so.many.times. I can still recite many of them. We'd quote them at appropriate moments, or riff off the quotes. If we're lucky, we grow up listening to our parents read them, and then have the great pleasure of reading them to our kids in due course. I hope Eric Carle and Lois Ehlert (and Virginia Lee Burton, and Robert McCloskey, and Margaret Wise Brown, and A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard, and and and...) knew how much their contributions to generations of kids have been appreciated. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopmom Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 I wore this shirt to school today and took all my Eric Carle books. I wasn’t sure how my 4th graders would take me reading them aloud but they begged for more. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 We especially love Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? Very touching. ❤️ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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