As I've said before, there are many reasons to vilify Dubyah--but among these reasons is *not* his love of Eric Carle. When Dubyah named "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" as his favorite book, people all over the country sniffed--in judgment. But people are ridiculous. Dubyah was giving a sincere answer. And "Caterpillar" is a work of art. Carle was not an especially memorable storyteller--with the exception of "Caterpillar"--but he did see the world in his own way, and he made exuberant pictures of natural phenomena. He made you aware--or re-made you aware--of the wonders of the natural world; he communicated joy through his attention to the curves on an exoskeleton or the colors of a bear's fur. Like Sondheim, Eric Carle had his own "signature." If you saw a Carle bear, you immediately knew it was a Carle bear (and not a Pinkney bear, and so on). My dream is to travel to the Eric Carle Museum, to see the works of other illustrators (plus...