From Head to Toe

Description: Alligators wiggle, elephants stomp, gorillas thump, and giraffes bend in this confidence-building, "I can do it!" book by the author of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "The Grouchy Ladybug". Just as alphabet books introduce very young children to letters and simple words, "From Head to Toe" teaches them about basic body parts and simple body movements. Carle's colorful collage illustrations add to the merriment.

Brief description:

Eric Carle was the creator of more than seventy picture books for young readers.

Eric Carle was born in New York, USA. However, when he was just six, he moved with his parents to Germany. In 1952, after graduating from the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, he fulfilled his dream of returning to New York.

Eric Carle received many distinguished awards and honours for his work, including, in 2003, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifetime contribution to children's literature and illustration.

In 2002, fifty years after Carle's return to the United States, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art was opened in Amherst, Massachusetts. Here visitors of all ages can enjoy, in addition to Eric Carle's work, original artwork by other distinguished children's book illustrators from around the world.