The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, is a colorful book about the starvation, and transformation of its main character, the caterpillar. The story started with the caterpillar inside of his egg; lying on a big, brown and green leaf. When the tiny caterpillar came out of its egg, he was starving; thus, he spent a whole week feeding himself fruits –from Monday until Friday, and then, he ate some snacks and unhealthy food by Saturday. His last large meal caused him a stomachache; as a result, the poor little caterpillar spent the night sick. By Sunday morning, he ate through a healthy green leaf, which made him feel much better. 

Suddenly he was no longer tiny or hungry. When he was ready to emerge from the cocoon, he bore a hole from the inside and pushed himself out. No longer a caterpillar, he had transformed in to a beautiful and colorful butterfly. 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a great book for all ages, specially, for babies and toddlers; for the variety of its attention-grabbing artworks, which goes along with every step made by the caterpillar. From the first until the very last page of the book, you could see huge –and apparently handmade paintings of the moon and the sun, the caterpillar and his meals, and the trees and leaves. In addition, the book have a very interesting part; when the author revealed the caterpillar’s meals thought the weekdays, every meal had a circular hole on it. These holes are representative of how the caterpillar ate through every kind of fruits, snacks, and unhealthy food. This made the book much more enjoyable 

and fun.

It was a simple, understanding short story. Nevertheless, the wide and bright-colored illustrations are the one that make The Very Hungry Caterpillar educational, interesting, and one-of-a-kind book.

Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. NY: Scholastic, 1987.

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