The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Mass., is holding the 2021 Carle Honors Art Auction. (To see the art and bid, click here.) The silent auction, which ends tomorrow evening at 8:30 p.m., features 26 works of art, including Gabriella's First Day of School by Raúl Colón, Red Crocodile by Eric Carle and Mni Wiconi, Water Is Life by Michaela Goade. Proceeds from the auction support the mission of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Children's literature expert and historian Leonard S. Marcus, founder of the Carle Honors, will introduce the awards. In a special recording, author, poet and activist Amanda Gorman reads from her forthcoming debut picture book, Change Sings, illustrated by Loren Long. A special tribute to the Museum's late co-founder Eric Carle will highlight art from his collection.