Written Pyramids

This makes me happy. Did you know that the book is more popular than The Cat in the Hat or Goodnight Moon?

Also, Newsweek has a great write up of Eric Carle's life. It's chilling in many ways and certainly worth a read:

He developed a special bond at school with his art teacher, Herr Krauss, who secretly showed him the works of Picasso, Matisse and Braque, all banned by Hitler. He remembers wading in the Rhine when a warplane flew by and shot at him. The bullets missed him by a few feet. He also remembers an unexpected knock at his family's house, days before the Germans surrendered. "Some Nazi official came to the door and said to my mother, 'Your son tomorrow morning has to report to the railroad station, we'll give him a bazooka.' I thought it would be exciting to get a bazooka. But she didn't let me go."