![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I suspect Eric Carle would get more pleasure from the interpretation given by our museum member from Minneapolis.Īndrew Laties co-founded Easton Book Festival, Book & Puppet Company, Vox Pop, The Children’s Bookstore, Chicago Children’s Museum Store, and Eric Carle Museum Bookstore. They told me that good socialist children should never read ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ because it is a tale of the Western consumer society it teaches over-consumption. “I was seated at a round table with many East German librarians. “I was in East Berlin in 1989, at a library conference,” he said. “You must have encountered so many interpretations,” I said. “I think of the story as redemptive, because the caterpillar eats all that junk food and suffers a stomachache, but he still gets to turn into a butterfly,” I said.Įric smiled. I hadn’t heard this story, and I was surprised. “I wanted holes in the pages: I needed a character to move through the holes.” “I was trying to make a book that would also be a toy,” he said. “Did you have some moral in mind, when you began to write ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar?’” I asked him. ![]()
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