Eric Carle's Caterpillar Turns 40

Today Google celebrated both the first day of spring and the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle's classic children's book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, with a special logo on the site's search page.


According to an article on the Telegraph, The Very Hungry Caterpillar currently sells at a rate of one copy every 30 seconds:

"Google celebrates Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Urmee Khan, Telegraph.co.uk, March 20, 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5021384/Google-celebrates-Eric-Carles-Very-Hungry-Caterpillar.html


The Official Eric Carle Web Site has a short video on the making of the book:

"A short video of Eric Carle talking about his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
http://www.eric-carle.com/short_video.html

An archive of Google's special logos, known as Google Doodles, can be found here:

More Google: Holiday Logos
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

For more background on Google Doodles see:

Doodle 4 Google: Doodle History
http://www.google.com/doodle4google/doodler.html

Google runs an annual Google Doodle design competition for school-age children:

Doodle 4 Google
http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html