At the Eric Carle Museum

We had a blast at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture book Art in Amherst, Massachusets. It is an awesome museum. We went to help celebrate Eric’s 80th Birthday, enjoying in the process birthday cake and a performance by Elizabeth Mitchell of You Are My Flower. We loved the displays of Carle’s work as well as Virginia Lee Burton, who wrote some of our favorite books like Mike Mulligan’s Steam Shovel and The Little House. The museum’s displays are focused on the process of storytelling with art, and really help kids and adult kids see that small sketches can turn into great stories. It is a very ‘kid friendly’ museum. Jack loved being able to see pictures up close, as well as seeing his Aunt D and Rohan and Teagan.