Secret Hilton
VIDEO SUMMARY
1. Discuss Eric Carle’s early inspirations.
Some of Eric’s early inspirations where his uncle. He always had a wide imagination and he used it very well. He was between 6-9 when he knew that drawing and righting children’s boos is what he was going to do for the rest of his life.
2. Explain the messages from the three books Eric describes and relate them to Their perspective stories.
Eric’s three books he mentions in the movie are “The Hungry Caterpillar” “The Very Busy Spider” and, “The Quite Cricket”. The hungry caterpillar stands for hope, the very busy spider stands for working, and the quite cricket stands for love.
3. Explain the process in which Eric Carle creates his pictures that are found in many of his books.
Eric makes different collages on tissue paper with paints. He don’t care what they look like if he don’t like it he simply throw’s them away. Eric also did some illustrations for Bill Marten in the book “Brow Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?”
4. Why does Eric use a lot of ‘’suns’’ in he’s stories?
Eric uses a lot of suns in he’s story because he likes all of his stories to take place within 12 hours apart. Children know morning noon and night, so he uses day and night. He also uses the sun because it’s up day after day just like him.
5. What is Eric’s favorite book? What are the effects it has on children?
Eric’s favorite book is ‘’Do You Want To Be My Friend” because friendships start young. He thinks it’s important for children to have friends of all ages and to trust them young.