Love from The Very Hungry Caterpillar (The World of Eric Carle)

As others have said, it's more a gift book than a story to be read amongst a stack of library books. Like the (much longer) Dr. Seuss books that are given as graduation presents. And I'm sorry, but I just cannot give it a full four stars for that.

Otoh, I want to frame enlargements of several of the pages. Especially the one with the birds, especially the chickadees. Thank you, Eric Carle, for showing real birds, not lazy generic things with wings & misc. colors.

Perfect book to teach your students how to give compliments, or simply just to be nice and loving to one another.

This was a very short book. I would be a good book to keep in a kindergarten classroom for emergent readers because there are so few words on the page. They could create their own story with the book if they cannot read. Even if they cannot read they are still interacting with the books and looking at pictures.

There are three reasons why I did not like this book. First, I did not like how there was barely any words on each of the pages. For example, on each page there is only about two or three words on each page, such as the first page You Are….., then, on the next page ….So Sweet. The whole book then continues with those short readings on each page. Second, I did not like how it was an extremely short story with not many details throughout the book. I did not like how; the illustrations were kind of funny and some were hard to make out what the pictures were on each page. The big idea of this story was about love and why The Hungry Caterpillar loves you.

A valentines day present from Tia Katy and Sandra. Mx really liked this one for a bit. Loved hearing about how much he is loved.

cute, short and sweet