Have you visited our Barbara Elleman Research Library (BERL) yet here at The Carle? The BERL is a non-circulating research collection of roughly 3,000 professional resources and children's books devoted to the study of children's literature and the visual arts. READ MORE

Each year in January, the American Library Association gives the Randolph Caldecott Medal to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children that year. READ MORE

Welcome to The Eric Carle Museum Bookstore's new blog. This multivocal hodgepodge of opinions, queries and book reviews aims to entertain and engage. Our blogging team is: Super-duper Barbara Elleman, Higgledy-piggledy Andy Laties, and Razzle-dazzle Eliza Brown. Can we write a couple of fun and useful posts each week? Like Eric Carle's inspiring menagerie of humble bugs, we won't quit trying. We hope you like our show. READ MORE