“He created readers as voracious as that caterpillar, and gave them wings.”Ĭhris Riddell on Eric Carle. “Perhaps his greatest achievement, also wonderfully simple, was to introduce his readers at the earliest age, to the idea of the book as an object, by adding holes in the pages of The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” said Riddell. Carle’s signature style came from bright tissue paper, stippled and smeared with acrylic paint, which was then cut with a knife and stuck on to white cardboard to form bold designs.
It is bound to remain a classic.”Ĭhris Riddell, the children’s author and illustrator, praised the “deceptively simple beauty” of Carle’s pictures, and the way his painted paper collage technique connected with children. As well as the tactile element (all those holes!), it combines colours, counting and days of the week, and also manages to teach children about insect development – all that as well as being beautiful and funny. “The Very Hungry Caterpillar is such a clever book. “Picture books are a child’s first art gallery, and Eric Carle – maybe more than anyone else – made the world aware of picture books as an exciting art form,” said Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo and former children’s laureate.
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