The chameleon''s life was not very exciting until the day it
discovered it could change not only its color but its shape and
size,too. When it saw the wonderful animals in the zoo, it
immediately wanted to be like them -- and ended up likeall of them
at once -- with hilarious results.
關於作者:
Eric Carle is 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 has 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.