The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The  Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The  Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

Penguin 2002

9780140569322

“In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf”.

Who doesn’t know this classic story of the hatching of that little egg, and the caterpillar’s journey through a an orchard of fruits throughout the week, a un-caterpillar feast on Saturday and culminating in a massive stomach ache?  So big, in fact, that the little caterpillar has to eat through a nice green leaf to ease it and then goes to sleep for another week, snug in a cocoon until he emerges as a beautiful butterfly.

First published in 1969, this story has endured for 45 years because it has all the things that young readers like – an engaging character, bright pictures created in Carle’s signature collage style, cut and cutout pages that promise new things when they are turned, counting and prediciting and reading along, and a most satisfying ending.

Over the years, Carle has written many stories for the very young and whether its The Very Busy Spider, The Tiny Seed or Does a Kangaroo have a mother, too? each has a place on the bottom shelf, your read-aloud basket and your teaching toolkit.

Now, at the age of 84, Carle has released Friends a new story inspired by an old snapshot and a long-ago memory.

A peek inside...

A peek inside…

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