High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eric Carle (born June 25, 1929) is a children`s book author and illustrator who is most famous for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has been translated into over 50 languages. Since The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than 70 books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 103 million copies of his books have sold around the whole world.