Running head : Eric Carle Life Sketch of Eric Carle and His Works Biography of Eric Carle Eric Carle was born into a German family in Syracuse , New York in 1929 (Mackenzie and Mackenzie 2003 , p . 29 . His father was a natural talent when it came to the pencils and the brush and always wanted to be an artist , instead he became a customs official in Germany before migrating to the United States (Carle 1996 , p .13 . When his father was in the United States he spray-painted washing machines for a living (Carle 1996 , p . 13 . Carle ‘s mother moved to New York from Germany after exchanging romantic love letters with Carle ‘s father . When they were married in a Lutheran church , his mother said , Eric was born thirteen months after the wedding (Carle 1996 , p .14 .Early Talent When Carle first started going to school , the blank papers , paint and brushes amazed him . His mother was called to meet with the teacher one day , she thought it was because her son was misbehaving instead it was because he was good at art (Carle 1996 , p . 15 . She believed in encouraging her son with his talent , however at some point there was confusion as to that encouragement to be an artist on his mother ‘s part (Carle 1996 , p . 15 .The love for nature As Germans , they loved the outdoors and as young as he was , he was brought on camping trips with his father (Carle 1996 , p . 14 . Carle also shared the love of nature with his father . This love for nature was widely reflected in his art work and stories . During Adolf Hitler ‘s regime , the Carle family moved back to Germany when he was six years old (Carle 1996 , p . 16 . His father continued to influence his love for nature as they would take long walks in the meadows or the woods and he would teach him about the life cycles of small creatures like caterpillars and spiders perhaps (Mackenzie and Mackenzie 2003 , p . 29 . Carle saw that when he wrote and drew about living things , he was honoring his father as well (Mackenzie and Mackenzie 2003 , p . 29 . Even at kindergarten he was already recognized as young as that with his talent for art , he credited his teacher , Herr Kraus at the German Gymnasium or high school for developing the knowledge he had of art (Carle 1996 , p . 63 Mackenzie and Mackenzie 2003 , p . 29 . He was had sins in his youth that kept him from being promoted however Carle admired this man ‘s talent (Carle 1996 , p . 63 .Art Education He went to study in an art school the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Stuttgart (Mackenzie and Mackenzie 2003 , pp . 29 . He wanted a career in design when he graduated , that was when he went back to the United States the land he considered was the place of his happiest childhood memories (Mackenzie and Mackenzie 2003 , pp . 29 . When he went back to the US , he…