Eric Carle

The Eric Carle Gift Set: the Tiny Seed; Pancakes, Pancakes!; a House for Hermit Crab; Rooster's off to See the World (Boxed Set)

Publisher Marketing: Four favorites from Eric Carle are available in one gift set! This sturdy boxed set of four bestselling Eric Carle titles includes board editions of "The Tiny Seed," "Pancakes, Pancakes!," "A House for Hermit Crab, "and "Rooster's Off to See the World." Each story is filled with Eric Carle's trademark collage-style illustrations that have made him one of America's most beloved artists. Parents love Eric Carle as much as kids do, and these four books in a compact boxed set make a perfect gift! Contributor Bio:  Carle, Eric Eric Carle is the author and illustrator of more than seventy books for children, many of them bestsellers. Born in Syracuse, New York, he moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Stuttgart before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for "The New York Times" and later as art director for an international advertising agency. His first two books, "1,2,3 to the Zoo" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", gained him immediate international recognition. The latter title, now considered a modern classic, has sold more than 30 million copies and has been translated into forty-eight languages. Eric Carle and his wife, Barbara, divide their time between the mountains of North Carolina and the Florida Keys.