The Eric Carle Storybook Collection: 7 Great Stories in One Book

About this book

Generations of readers have grown up with Eric Carles deceptively simple picture books which combine entertaining stories glorious cut-paper collages and gentle lessons about a childs world. Here are seven of his stories collected in one handsome volume: "The Tiny Seed " "Pancakes Pancakes! " "The Mountain That Loved A Bird " "Walter The Baker " "A House for Hermit Crab " "The Greedy Python " and "Roosters Off to See the World." Dazzling collages of hand-painted tissue paper will entice young readers to become acquainted with numbers the seasons and the days of the week as they read. A tiny seed travels through fall winter spring and summer looking for a place to grow into a flower. Jack gathers ingredients for pancakes and learns how to cook flip and finish them. A little bird brings a renewal of life and happiness to a lonely barren mountain. Walter the baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times. Hermit Crab learns that in order to grow one must be willing to move on. A python is so excessively greedy that is finally eats itself. And Rooster sets off to see the wide world in a day-long adventure. These seven stories each representing the best of picture-book master Eric Carle will excite the imaginations of children and encourage their curiousity about the world around them.