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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

by Eric Carle

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is a fiction book about a caterpillar's change into a butterfly. The caterpillar comes out of its egg and is very hungry. For 7 days the caterpillar eats different foods until it is fat and shapes a cocoon around itself. Then the cocoon opens and a butterfly appears. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a book that readers 2nd grade and younger would find enjoyable.
This book shows a sequence of eating one food the first day, two foods the second day, three foods the third day and so on until the sixth and seventh days. Carle also makes holes in each food showing where the caterpillar had eaten through. This helps the reader to envision the caterpillars eating habits. The illustrations of the book are big and vivid, the writing is simple and does not take up much space on the page. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a fiction book because the caterpillar chews through human food and only eats a leaf on the last day. Also, the book's caterpillar only eats for 7 days while a real caterpillar would eat for about 2 weeks before changing into a cocoon. This book is an enjoyable piece of literature to expand a readers interest in animals and the way that they live.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar can be used to introduce a unit on bugs and their life cycle. ( )
  amork | Nov 18, 2009 |
This is one of my favorite stories ever! Every classroom library needs this book! ( )
  meotoole | Nov 17, 2009 |
In this story we follow the eating of a little caterpillar. The book allows children to stick their little fingers into different holes of the book that correlate with the number the story is on.
  katerch | Nov 15, 2009 |
Eric Carle does a wondeful job of writing an orginal story and laying out the story through original and inventive illustrations. this book is a classic and is a book all children enjoy because of the story and especially because of the wonderful illustrations. The author's site can be found at http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html one cool thing i found out on the site was it is the 40th anivesery of the very hungry catepillar.
  CjWilson | Nov 15, 2009 |
No foods will ever seem as vivid and archetypal to me as one apple, two pears,three plums, four strawberries, five oranges, one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon. ( )
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For my sister Christa.
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In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.
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"In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf." So begins Eric Carle's modern classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. More than 12 million copies of this book have been sold in its original, full-sized edition, and the beloved tale of science and gluttony has been translated into 20 languages. This five-by-four-inch miniature edition is truly tiny, with tiny type, but it is a nice size for small hands to hold and flip through the pictures. Despite its diminished state, the book is complete in every detail, following the ravenous caterpillar's path as he eats his way through one apple (and the pages of the book itself) on Monday, two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday, and so on, through cherry pie and sausage--until he is really fat and has a stomachache. And no doubt you know what happens next! Kids love butterfly metamorphosis stories, and this popular favorite teaches counting and the days of the week, too. A fun gift package for caterpillar fans. (Baby to preschool) --Karin Snelson

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