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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