NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Carle, the beloved children’s author and illustrator whose classic “The Very Hungry Caterpillar ... with a mountain in the background. Although I was shocked, I ...

Eric Carle said The Very Hungry Caterpillar was "a book of hope", in a BBC interview in 2019 Eric Carle, the US author of best-selling children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died aged 91.