Eric Carle, whose children’s book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar’’ became a worldwide success, has died at the age of 91.
Carle died on Sunday, his family announced on his website on Wednesday. The U.S author’s son Rolf told The New York Times Carle died from kidney failure.
Carle was born in 1929 in Syracuse in the U.S state of New York. He was the son of German immigrants who took him back to Germany in 1935.
At the beginning of the 1950s, Carle returned to the U.S, and painful memories from his childhood in Nazi Germany became the impetus for his work as a children’s author.
He published more than 100 books that were translated into around 70 languages.
He became globally famous at the end of the 1960s for “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’’ the story of a caterpillar that hatches from an egg, eats its way through all different types of food, and then became fat and pupates before turning into a butterfly.
