"I wasn't thinking of books or anything like that," Carle told The Guardian. and took a job at an ad agency, where he got the inspiration for his future classic. After briefly getting sent back to Germany when he was drafted by the United States Army, Carle returned to the U.S. As a young adult, he moved back to New York and got a job as a graphic designer working in advertising. The war didn't exactly endear Carle to Europe, and he longed to return to America. The caterpillar was originally a bookworm. "I didn't have the slightest idea that something like that existed, because I was used to art being flag-waving, gun-toting Aryans-super-realistic Aryan farmers, the women with their brute arms,” Carle said. Flouting the rigorous policing of Nazi Germany, Kraus invited Carle to his home to see banned expressionist art, showing him reproductions of works by Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Herr Kraus, Carle’s high school art teacher, recognized his young pupil’s potential and risked his livelihood for the opportunity to foster it. A brave art teacher introduced Carle to the vibrancy that would later define his work. "It may be psychobabble but I sometimes think I rehash that period of my life in my books,” Carle told The Guardian in 2004. The author later speculated that he was drawn to the chunky, vibrant colors of painted tissue paper collage in part as reaction to the grimness of his childhood. When Carle's father returned, he wasn't the warm, encouraging paternal figure the then-18-year-old remembered from before the war, but a distant and broken man. His father was drafted into the German army and was captured by the Soviets, and was away from the family for 8 years. World War II cast a bleak pallor of violence and loss over Carle’s childhood. It was 1935-so precisely the wrong time to move back to Europe. But when Carle was 6, his father relocated the family back to his native Stuttgart, Germany. The Very Hungry Caterpillar's bright colors contrast a dark period in Eric Carle's childhood.Įric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York, on June 25, 1929.
Here are a few things you might not know about The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Eric Carle's bright, beloved children's classic about an insatiable caterpillar has been collecting awards-and fans-since it was first published in 1969.
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