So sad to hear today of the death of Eric Carle, author and illustrator of one of the world’s most favourite children’s books ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. It was also a favourite in our house and I’ve blogged about it before, along with some of our other favourite children’s books involving gardening or wildlife. As I wrote, back in 2014, one of the things about this book is that it makes you much more sympathetic to the more destructive creatures in the garden: they have to eat after all. So RIP Eric Carle and thank you for bringing us such joy and a new way of looking at the wildlife all around us. Here’s a caterpillar from last summer which I hope became a beautiful butterfly, but which was really rather beautiful in its caterpillian form too.
Reclaiming Paradise 
I hadn’t heard about Eric Carle’s death. I wonder if he will be on Last Word (Radio 4).
Anyway, yes, his hungry caterpillar was a lovely book.