The Boston Globe, February 21st, 2002
NORTHAMPTON - Eric Carle sometimes envies the sloth. There is something to be said for sleeping 19 to 20 hours a day, eating hardly at all, and relieving oneself just once a week. So the author and illustrator of more than 70 children's books, who says he shuns too much excitement in his life, decided that slothiness (as distinct from slothfulness) would be a suitable topic for his next book. Part of the impetus has been the extraordinary amount of energy he and his wife, Barbara, known to friends as Bobbie, have been putting into the planning and construction of the Eric Carle Museum of Pictu...
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