Have You Seen My Cat?

by Eric Carle, Eric Carle (Illustrator)

Overview

With a few easy-to-read words and brilliantly colored collages, Eric Carle leads young readers on an around-the-world tour with a little boy who is looking for his cat. Through Africa, the Middle East, and into Asia, the boy searches--until he happily discovers what his cat has been doing with herself. Full color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780689817311
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	09/01/1997
Series:	World of Eric Carle Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.26(w) x 5.24(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	-999L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

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 The Tiny 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.

Hometown:

Northampton, Massachusetts and the Berkshires

Date of Birth:

June 25, 1929

Place of Birth:

Syracuse, New York

Education:

Akademie der bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, 1946-50

Website:

http://www.eric-carle.com/

Editorial Reviews

The combination of Carle's unique cut-paper collage pictures and easy to read text make it a great story for even the youngest children.
—Alternative Family

Bobbie Combs