Bear Hugs! from Brown Bear and Friends (World of Eric Carle)

Ages 0 to 3

From Eric Carle's Brown Bear and Friends comes an exciting new board book original celebrating the affirming power of a hug!

Send a hug! Give a hug! Share a hug! Hugs for all seasons and hugs for all reasons. At Valentine's day and all year long, this rhyming, read-aloud is perfect for sharing and for showing you care. With new original text and exciting original use of art from the World of Eric Carle collection, it's a very special hug in a book—and the perfect way to say I love you.

Simultaneously releasing in small board and oversized lap board book edition, it's a gift-worthy offering, sure to captivate original readers of the Bear books and to bring new readers to the World of Eric Carle.

About the Author

Eric Carle (1929-2021) was one of America’s leading children’s book illustrators and authors. Author of more than seventy books, his picture book career started when Bill Martin Jr invited him to create the illustrations for Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? That book that went on to sell millions of copies worldwide and Eric soon began writing and illustrating his own books, eventually creating the bestselling classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in the United States, Eric also spent many of his early years in Germany where he studied typography and graphic art at the Academy of Applied Art in Stuttgart.

Carle was the recipient of many honors including the American Library Association’s Children’s Literature Legacy Award and the Original Art Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators. In addition to writing and illustrating books of his own, he also collaborated on several others, including Bill Martin Jr's Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Why Noah Chose the Dove, and the Eric Carle and Friends’ What’s Your Favorite picture book series. The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, which Carle and his wife Bobbie founded, opened in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002.