"He developed a special bond at school with his art teacher, Herr Krauss, who secretly showed him the works of Picasso, Matisse and Braque, all banned by Hitler. He remembers wading in the Rhine when a warplane flew by and shot at him. The bullets missed him by a few feet. He also remembers an unexpected knock at his family's house, days before the Germans surrendered. 'Some Nazi official came to the door and said to my mother, "Your son tomorrow morning has to report to the railroad station, we'll give him a bazooka." I thought it would be exciting to get a bazooka. But she didn't let me go.'"
Ramin Setoodeh in Newsweek visits author Eric Carle, forty years after The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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