This is a split-page board book teaching children the simple concept of numbers through Eric Carle's inimitable collage illustrations. Here, readers need to line up the number in the top section of the book with the same number of fruit in the bottom section.Author BiographyEric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award winning author/illustrator of books for very young children. He was born in New York, but spent his early life in Germany. He returned to the States in his early twenties and worked as a graphic designer for the New York Times. He went on to be the art director of an advertising agency before he began writing and illustrating children's books. Eric lives in Massachusetts with his wife Barbara. The Carles opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts in 2002.