By Eric Carle
Illustrated by Eric Carle

Fish that fly, butterflies that dance, camels that "trollop along," a tiger that has swallowed the sun - Animals Animals! For twenty years Eric Carle has interpreted a joyous variety of animals in his brilliant and colorful collage designs for children around the world. In this commemorative volume, created especially for sharing, he celebrates the broadest, livliest cast of animals yet, illustrating a distinguished collection of poetry and lyrical pieces from sources as diverse as the Bible, Shakespeare, Japanese haiku, African Pygmy, Pawnee Indian, Eugene Field, Lewis Carroll, D.H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Judith Viorst, Issa, Ogden Nash, Jack Prelutsky, and X.J. Kennedy. With brilliant, full-color illustrations that reflect the highest level of his artistic excellence, Carle invites the earth's children - brothers, sisters, parents, teachers, friends, all - to bask in the sameness, the difference, and the wonder of the earth's precious animals.