Eric Carle

Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books, and most of the more than seventy titles he illustrated were also written by him. He is best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, which follows a tiny caterpillar as it eats its way through a run of fruit before becoming a butterfly. Other books with his name on them include The Very Busy Spider, The Grouchy Ladybug and The Very Quiet Cricket. Carle died in 2021, and his books have sold more than 170 million copies around the world.