- From the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar comes a stylish first animal board book - perfect for babies and their picture book-loving parents! Who would have thought Lucy Cousins"s favourite animal is a leopard, NOT a mouse! And Eric Carle? He loves CATS! Bringing together some of the finest modern children"s book illustrators of our time - Jon Klassen, Eric Carle, Lucy Cousins, Nick Bruel, Susan Jeffers, Steven Kellogg, Tom Litchtenheld, Peter McCarty, Chris Raschka, Peter Sis, Lane Smith, Erin Stead, Rosemary Wells, Mo Willems - Eric Carle asks, What"s your favourite animal? and the result is an astonishingly colourful parade of animals, from giraffes with their heads in the clouds to fuzzy dogs and squishy snails.