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

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!

Eric Carle (1929–2021) was acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children, including Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me; Have You Seen My Cat?; and TheTiny Seed. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into seventy languages and sold over fifty-five million copies. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many bestsellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. In 2003, Carle received the Children’s Literature Legacy Award for lifetime achievement in children's literature. In 2002, Eric and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (CarleMuseum.org) in Amherst, Massachusetts, a 40,000-square-foot space dedicated to the celebration of picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world, underscoring the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of picture books and their art form. Eric Carle passed away in May 2021 at the age of ninety-one. His work remains an important influence on artists and illustrators at work today. Find out more at Eric-Carle.com.

ISBN: 9781442488854
Format: Board book
Pages: 124
Publisher: Little Simon
Published: September 03, 2013