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Monarch Butterflies: Mysterious Travelers. “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” Said the Sloth. The now big, fat caterpillar builds a big brown cocoon around himself, and two weeks later, lifts off from the exhilarating final double page, as a multicolored butterfly. On Saturday, he eats a glorious array of junk food, but on Sunday, he simplifies, eating through a nice green leaf. In pages of graduated size, with die-cut holes in each food, he eats his way through the week, starting on Monday with one apple, and moving through two pears, three plums, four strawberries, and five oranges, but he's still hungry. stamp several years back.Ī tiny and very hungry green and yellow caterpillar with a little red face pops out of his egg and starts looking for food. ) Carle's singular style of translucent painted tissue-paper collage illustrations is instantly recognizable, even to young children, and his hungry caterpillar even made it onto a U.S. These The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities will build literacy skills. (If you'd like to see a list of 100+ picture book classics, go to. The final, double-page picture of the butterfly is a joyous explosion of color, a vibrant affirmation of the wonder and beauty of Nature.'In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.' So begins one of the most beloved picture books of all times, right up there with The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. The information collected may include among other data: your IP address, your registered domain or home server, time of access, date of access, web page(s). Cleverly die-cut pages show what the caterpillar ate on successive days, graphically introducing sets of up to 10 objects and also the names of the days of the week in rotation, as well as telling the central story of the transformation of the caterpillar.

Full at last, he made a cocoon around himself and went to sleep, to wake up a few weeks later wonderfully transformed into a butterfly!īrilliantly innovative designer and artist Eric Carle has dramatized the story of one of Nature's commonest yet loveliest marvels, the metamorphosis of the butterfly, in a picture book to delight as well as instruct the very youngest reader or listener. Strikingly bold, colorful pictures and a simple text in large, clear type tell the story of a hungry little caterpillar's progress through an amazing variety and quantity of foods. On Monday, he ate through one apple on Tuesday, he ate through three plums-and still he was hungry. One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg.

The very hungry caterpillar pages