Illustrated by Eric Carle

Eric Carle, known for his outstanding picture books, among them The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has now turned his talent to writing these short stories. Flora and Tiger is an exuberant and touching collection of personal vignettes dedicated to his gentle father, covering moments from Eric Carle's earliest years in America, through his boyhood in the shadow of war in Germany, to the present as an adult artist living and working in the United States. He introduces us to his Oma (German grandmother) and the hen who might have been a rooster, his Cousin Fritz and the turtle who loved a cat, and his Uncle Adam and the tamed raven. "These stories have three things in common," Eric Carle says, "animals and insects, my family and friends and me." Writing with wit and charm, full of love for the people around him, Eric Carle welcomes readers young and old into his world.