The Grouchy Ladybug - Softcover

Carle, Eric

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064431169 ISBN 13: 9780064431163

Publisher: Trophy Pr, 1986

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Progressing through a series of brilliantly colored die-cut pages, a bad-tempered braggart becomes a nicer, happier, better-behaved bug. The arrangement of the book also introduces concepts of comparative size and telling time. Full-color illustrations.

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It's the Grouchy Ladybug's 20th birthday. To celebrate, we are introducing a new, larger format edition with brighter, more colorful pages created from Eric Carle's original artwork using the latest reproduction technology. The Grouchy Ladybug is bigger and brigher, as irascible but irresistable as ever and will surely delight new generations of readers, as well as her devoted fans of all ages. Happy Birthday, Grouchy Ladybug!

About the Author:

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 K�nste 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.

Eric Carle es el creador de m�s de setenta libros ilustrados para ni�os.

Naci� en Syracuse, Nueva York, pero a los seis a�os de edad se traslad� con sus padres a Alemania. En 1952, tras graduarse de la prestigiosa Akademie der Bildenden K�nste de Stuttgart, logr� cumplir su sue�o de regresar a Nueva York.

Ha recibido muchos e importantes premios y distinciones, entre ellos el Laura Ingalls Wilder Award en 2003, por su aportaci�n global a la literatura y a la ilustraci�n infantil.

En 2002, cincuenta a�os despu�s de su regreso a los Estados Unidos, se inaugur� en Amherst, Massachusetts, el Museo Eric Carle de Libros Ilustrados, donde se exhibe, adem�s de la obra completa de Eric Carle, un buen n�mero de originales de los m�s destacados ilustradores de libros infantiles del mundo entero.

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