Inspiration at the Carle: In the Auditorium and the Hallway

On Friday my husband and I went to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art http://www.carlemuseum.org/Home to hear its founder speak about his path through art. It seems to have begun with a first grade teacher in Syracuse, New York, who covered walls with his drawings and continues past recent celebrations of eighty years for him and forty years for the Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar. Eric Carle showed a slide of himself as a little boy dressed as a cowboy in titled hat and rakish bandanna alo...