Eric Carle‎'‎s wonderful new book‎,‎ The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse‎.‎ ‎"‎I am an artist‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎‎"‎ begins Eric Carle‎'‎s vibrant tribute to the creative life‎.‎ And just like an imaginative child‎,‎ this is one artist who paints the world as he sees it‎- a red crocodile‎,‎ an orange elephant‎,‎ a purple fox‎,‎ a black polar bear ‎(‎‎!‎‎)‎ and a wonderful polka‎-dotted donkey‎.‎ Filled with some of the most magnificently colourful animals of Eric Carle‎'‎s career‎,‎ this is a book that celebrates imagination and the artist within us all‎.‎ Inspired by the work of the great Expressionist painter Franz Marc‎,‎ a founder of the artists‎'‎ group known as Der Blaue Reiter ‎(‎The Blue Rider‎)‎‎,‎ who famously used abstract blue horses in his paintings‎.‎ Marc‎'‎s vibrantly colourful paintings influenced generations of artists‎,‎ and fired the imaginations of children‎'‎s book artists far and wide‎.‎ Examples of Marc‎'‎s paintings and a short biography are included at the end of the book‎.‎ Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award‎-winning author and illustrator of books for very young children‎.‎ He was born in New York‎,‎ but spe‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎