The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

If you are going to be in the Amherst, Massachusetts area this fall, be sure and visit The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. There you and your children can enjoy exhibitions of Carle's illustrations as well as a variety of other exhibitions and programs, includeing Dorothy Kunhardt's Pat the Bunny, through December 7, 2008, and Selections from the Art of Eric Carle, through January 29, 2009. Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is only one of a large number of children's picture books created by the talented artist.

(Cover art courtesy of Philomel Books)