The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Hungry Caterpillar is a children's picture book and the adaptions thereof. It was originally written and drawn in 1969 by Eric Carle, a German-American authorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eric_Carle&oldid=1122697188. You should be sad to hear that this could reflect that memories of his father, drafted into the German army years after his mother returned to Germany due to homesickness, returned from a Russian prison camp at 85 lbs. Eric was also drafted as a teen, but to dig trenches. Later he escaped to America and joined the American army.
Uroballus carlei is a Hong Kong jumping spider that cloaks itself as a caterpillar that has been named in Eric Carle's honor.
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