With more than two million copies sold, "Brown Bear, Brown
Bear, What Do You See?" has opened up a world of learning to a
generation of children. For this edition, created for the
twenty-fifth anniversay in 1992, Bill Martin, Jr., restored his
text to its original wording. And Eric Carle created all new
pictures--based on the originals, but clearer, brighter, and truer
to the colors they represent. Bill Martin has been devoted to
writing children''s books for more than thirty years. He has a Ph.D.
in early childhood education and he has long been a proponent of
using rhyme and rhythm to teach young children how to read. Eric
Carle, illustrator of many beloved children''s books, was born in
the United States, but spent his early years in Stuttgart, Germany,
where he studied art and design at the Academy of Applied Art.
"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" was the first book he
illustrated.
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Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning
author and illustrator of books for very young children. He was
born in New York, but spent his early life in Germany. He returned
to the States in his early twenties and worked as a graphic
designer for the New York Times. He went on to be the art director
of an advertising agency before he began writing and illustrating
children''s books. Eric lives in Massachusetts with his wife,
Barbara. The Carles opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book
Art in Massachusetts in 2002. Bill Martin Jr, a former elementary
school principal, and then teacher, writer and poet, held a
doctoral degree in childhood education. His many books, among them
bestselling classics Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? are testament to his
ability to speak directly to children. Born and raised in Kansas,
Bill Martin Jr spent the last eleven years of his life in Texas,
where he died in 2004.