31 May 2021
Eric Carle, the US author of best-selling children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died aged 91.
He died last Sunday, his family said.
"In the light of the moon, holding on to a good star, a painter of rainbows is now travelling across the night sky," a family statement said.
Carle's most famous book, which tells the story of a ravenous caterpillar, was published in 1969 and has sold more than 50 million copies.
