Eric Carle 美國設計師、插畫家、兒童繪本作家和兒童文學作家。他最有名的作品是他用拼貼技法創作的《好餓的毛毛蟲》，截至2014年，已經被翻譯成超過60種語言，並在世界各地售出3千8百萬本。自從1969年以來，他已經創作超過70本書籍，由於對美國兒童文學貢獻，在2003年贏得了蘿拉·英格斯·懷德獎。

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, including The Tiny Seed, Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me,?and his most well-known title, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, 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 advertising agency. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold nearly fifty million copies and has been translated into sixty-five languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle lives in the Florida Keys.