Town Hall Seattle, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Presented with Tacoma Art Museum
Underwritten by Reed, Longyear, Malnati, Ahrens & West, PLLC

Excerpt
Selected Works
Links

Please join us for a special evening featuring the very talented creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1967) and more than seventy other captivating picture books for young children. Eric Carle creates richly colored, playfully designed, and warmly told stories of small creatures navigating a big world. More than seventy million hungry young readers around the world have consumed Carle's delightful stories and images, a selection of which can be seen in the fall Tacoma Art Museum exhibit The Art of Eric Carle.

Excerpt

From 10 Little Rubber Ducks

Chuckedy-chuckedy-chuck
Goes the rubber duck machine.
Out pop little yellow rubber ducks
one after the other,
One after the other.

The little rubber ducks are painted—bills red and eyes blue.

Then they are packed, 10 to a box...

and off they go...

to be loaded onto a cargo ship.

"Hello," calls the captain.

The captain and his cargo ship
Are taking the little rubber ducks
Across the wide sea to faraway countries,
to faraway countries.

Suddenly a storm churns the water into big waves.
A strong wind whistles across the sea,
whistles across the sea.

A big wave lifts up one of the boxes
And throws it into the water.
The box opens, and 10 little rubber ducks fall out.
"10 rubber ducks overboard!" shouts the captain.
"10 rubber ducks overboard!"

Selected Works
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969)
Do You Want to Be My Friend? (1971)
The Very Quiet Cricket (1999)
Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? (2000)
Ten Little Rubber Ducks (2005)

Web Site Links

Author's Website

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Tacoma Art Museum's exhibit The Art of Eric Carle