Eric Carle

There are lots of books.

Eric Carle.

Yeah.

I think Alix Earle would be very moved by The Giving Tree.

And what's interesting about it to me, I was thinking about this.

We were at the Eric Carle picture book, uh, children's book or picture book art museum yesterday in, in Northampton, Massachusetts.

It's a museum of his artwork and other artwork from children's book authors and illustrators, and, um, it's so great.

And like I was saying with Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers or something, one of the things that's powerful about making art for kids is that, like, usually those books are about one thing.

So it had some- Where the Wild Things Are characters.

I think it had some Eric Carle im- like, I'm realizing now why I was probably drawn to a lot of these things again when we had kids.

[laughs]

Um, and you know, just, uh, maybe even some, like, Richard Scarry-

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Eric Carle, I believe that's the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Never been to that museum.

Alan, thanks so much for that story.

I happened to pick a book.

It was by Eric Carle.

It was about the moon.

He suddenly started speaking in class for the first time.

[chuckles] Right.

Uh, they are Cinderella, Eric, and Carl.

Eric Carle being the author of The Very Hungry, uh, Caterpillar-

Yes, indeed

... which is my daught- was my daughter's favorite book.

So, uh, we have, um, these things called blue morpho tags that, uh, placed on individual butterfly wing, uh, their backs with eyelash glue.

Um, they can ping local cell phones and cell phone towers and mobile devices and tell you precisely where the individual butterflies are.

So we have, and this is the first season, um, we've been able to do this, I could tell you where Cinderella, Eric, and Carl were at pretty much any given moment.

All right, there's this book, My Girl's Love of the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

You read it by Eric Carle? I get a little bit jealous reading these books.

I'm like, this man has made millions of dollars writing little cute kid stories.

I'm like, I do not make anywhere close to millions of dollars, and I think I preach sophisticated, theologically dense messages.