“All too often I had to go out with clients, have dinner and drinks with them, attend meetings, and there was all the backstabbing and office intrigue. “It’s a profession for young men and women,” he said in Show Me A Story. Although he enjoyed the job, like many people approaching 40, he had become disillusioned with the way his career was going. In the mid-1960s, Carle was a graphic designer working in advertising in New York. If you have children, the chances are you’ve read The Very Hungry Caterpillar at least once this year, perhaps this week, maybe even uttered the words “That night he had a stomach ache” this morning. It’s a behemoth of the publishing world, a book that surpassed all expectations and, 51 years since publication, remains ever-present on book sales charts, notching up more than 50 million sales worldwide and is read on average nine times a year by each child in the UK.īut how did Eric Carle , who passed away in May aged 91, go from a creative in the Mad Men-era ad industry to writing one of the most popular children’s books of all time? And why do we have a hole puncher to thank?
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