The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will be opening in Northampton, MA in 2002:
\”In this college town known for its young people, many of whom sport multiple body piercings and vacant stares, an elfin 72-year-old man with a Lincoln-style white beard has become a source of local pride. His name is Eric Carle and he wrote and illustrated such mega-bestsellers as \”The Very Hungry Caterpillar\” and \”The Very Quiet Cricket,\” picture books about usually unlovable creatures that overcome obstacles to find meaning in life.
Carle\’s studio is right on Main Street here. And five miles away, on the campus of Hampshire College, he is building a museum that promises not only to spread his own reputation beyond his fan base of preschoolers and their parents but also to enhance the reputation of a long-unrecognized art genre. Next fall the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a sprawling contemporary structure, will open in a former apple orchard . . .
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