The Very Hungry Caterpillar

"Now her wasn't hungry any more - and he wasn't a little caterpillar any more.  He was a big, fat caterpillar."

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle
Copyright 1969 and 1969 by Eric Carel
Published by Philomel Books
Picture Book
Age Level: yong child
18 pages

One sunny sunday morning a little caterpillar was born and he was HUNGRY. He searched all over for food.  each day he ate through something new and a new number of it.  So monday was one apple  Tuesday was two pears, Wednesday: three plums, Thursday: four strawbarries, Friday: five oranges.  After each day he was still hungry! On Saturday this very hungry caterpuillar ate though a lot of food.  He ate a piece of chocolate cake, icecream, a pickle, a slice of cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piee or cherry pie, on sausage, one cupcake and a slice of watermelon.  Now this caterpillar was a sick caterpillar.  Now it was sunday again and all he ate through was one nice green leaf.  He felt better after eating that and was no longer a little caterpillar but a BIG one.  So he built a cocoon around himself and stayed in there for a little over two weeks then nibbled his way out.  He was no longer a catterpillar but ad beautiful butterfly. 

This book is good for younger kids to understand caterpillars but at the same time it is funny becuase caterpillars dont eat some of those things.  I can't forget about Eric Carle's pictures in the book, they are amazing.  I would recomend this book for paretns to read with their kids.

I don't think that there is anything wrong with this book, just as long as kids understand that they cannot feed caterpillars icecream and things like that.

I love this book.  It was one of those books that I grew up with.