Poems compiled by Laura Whipple.
"Eric Carle prepares his own colored tissue papers. Different textures are achieved by using various brushes to splash, spatter, and finger paint acrylic paints onto thin tissue papers. These colored tissue papers then become his palette. They are cut or torn into shapes on the board before the bits of tissue paper are applied to make the collage illustration"--Colophon.
Includes Index of animals alphabetically arranged (p.[90]), Index of first lines (p.[91]), and Copyright acknowledgements (p.[92-93]).