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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

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By Eric Carle

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Eric Carle’s classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, with a cuddly soft toy.

Eric Carle’s classic tale teaches children about numbers, days of the week and time as the newly hatched (and very hungry!) caterpillar munches his way through die-cut pages. This delightful gift set contains a sturdy board book edition of this bestselling picture book and an adorable soft toy.

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of books for very young children. Eric lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Barbara. The Carles opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts in 2002.

Don’t miss all the other Very Hungry Caterpillar and Eric Carle books:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar; Eric Carle’s Very Special Baby Book; Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear?; The Very busy Spider; The Very Quiet Cricket; The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse; 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo; Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What do you See?; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Pop-Up Book; Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?; The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Buggy Book; Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; The Bad-Tempered Ladbybird; The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Little Learning Library; The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Touch and Feel Playbook; My Very First Book of Words; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book and Toy; Little Cloud; Today is Monday; My Very First Book of Shapes; The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Sound Book; The Very Hungry Caterpillar; From Head to Toe; The Very Hungry Caterpillar Big Board Book; Draw Me a Star; Mister Seahorse; Do You want to be My Friend?; The Tiny Seed; The Mixed-up

Reviews

30 Jul 2026

I liked this book because it is factual about how caterpillars change into butterflies, because you can see a picture of the chrysalis, I like how colourful it is. I would definitely would tell my friends about this book.

30 Jul 2026

Coach Flossy Mildew

I liked it whet it was a butterfly, and the cattepilar got sick and had to eat a leaf.

30 Jul 2026

Classic

30 Jul 2026

Very engaging for children.
bright bold visuals.

30 Jul 2026

I like the hungry caterpillar.

I didn’t like the moon page because it was dark.

My favourite page was when the caterpillar ate the strawberries.

29 Jul 2026

I like how at the end he turned into a butterfly and how he ate lots of food and went into his coocoon

29 Jul 2026

I enjoyed how the caterpillar turned into a big beautiful butterfly.

26 Jul 2026

I liked the bit when the caterpillar felt better after eating the leaf.

26 Jul 2026

A favourite and a super quick bed time read

26 Jul 2026

Liked it

25 Jul 2026

So loved how eventually the caterpillar bloomed and turned into a butterfly

24 Jul 2026

This is one of my favourite books

24 Jul 2026

I liked it when he became a butterfly. I liked all the different fruit. I would recommend the book to my friends.

21 Jul 2026

My favourite book!

21 Jul 2026

I always read this book. My favourite bit is when he eats all the different foods then feel poorly

20 Jul 2026

Happy book

20 Jul 2026

I like when he makes a cocoon and flies out as a butterfly! It was funny when he ate 10,000 things!

20 Jul 2026

I like the sun and the moon. I like that the caterpillar gets bigger and bigger.
I read the words 'leaf', 'sun' and 'caterpillar'.

20 Jul 2026

Beautiful growth and development book

18 Jul 2026

Great for learning days if the week, it makes me happy being able to read the big tricky words by myself.

18 Jul 2026

good

17 Jul 2026

I like that the caterpillar terns into a butterfly

14 Jul 2026

Amaal loved reading this book and now makes the pop sound every time the caterpillar comes out his egg. We also love the page when the caterpillar eats too much food!

14 Jul 2026

I love that the caterpillar gets fat when he eats everything

12 Jul 2026

I liked the bit where it turned into a butterfly

09 Jul 2026

I liked it when it turned into a big fat caterpillar.

14 Jun 2026

Good pictures. Naming fruits. Counting. Days of the week

26 May 2026

We love this book and read it a lot . We like when the caterpillar becomes a butterfly

12 May 2026

I read this book with my mum and I love it. I love learning how the caterpillar got bigger and then changed into a butterfly!

05 Mar 2026

An old favourite!

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