In Memory: Eric Carle

Children’s book author Eric Carle photographed in his North Carolina studio

Photo credit: Jim Gipe, used with permission

By Stephani Martinell Eaton

Eric Carle, celebrated and beloved author and illustrator died peacefully of kidney failure, surrounded by family, on May 23 at his summer studio in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was 91.

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