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Title: The Greedy Python and the Foolish Tortoise
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books 01/06/1987
Publication Date: 1987
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0340408057
ISBN 13: 9780340408056
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Eric Carle
Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In two stories bound together back to back, a tortoise realizes the need for a shell after several scary encounters and a greedy python eats to excess, finally eating himself.

About the Author

Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, NY,

and moved to Germany with his

parents when he was six years old. He

studied at the Academy of Graphic Arts

in Stuttgart before returning to the

United States, where he worked as a

graphic designer for The New York

Times and later as art director for an international

advertising agency. His most well-known book, The

Very Hungry Caterpillar, which was published in 1969

gained him immediate international recognition. Since

the Caterpillar was published, Eric Carle has illustrated

more than seventy books, including Papa,Please Get

the Moon for Me and The Tiny Seed, and more than 88

million copies of his books have sold around the

world. In 2002, Eric Carle and his wife Barbara

founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in

Amherst, MA. Eric and Barbara Carle divide their time

between the Florida Keys and the hills of North

Carolina. For more information please visit:

www.eric-carle.com and www.carlemuseum.org.

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