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The Very Hungry Caterpillar author Eric Carle will release his 68th book, Friends , later this year and The Huffington Post is reporting an exclusive look at the cover.  Meanwhile, Eric Carle's colourful and sprightly blog continues to feature his current book, The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse, which is "an homage to the Expressionist painter Franz Marc. In WW11 Germany, my high school teacher Herr Krauss introduced me to abstract and Expressionist art during a time when works such as these had been banned. he so-called “degenerate art,” paintings of modern and expressionistic art my teacher showed me were unlike anything I had been exposed to before. And really this experience changed my life, though I didn't know it at the time." Regarding the upcoming book, Friends, by the 83-year-old author, a Penguin media statement says it is about: "...the love that binds people and the obstacles they will overcome in order to be together... Friends dates bac