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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Hardcover - 1981 - 1st Edition

by Eric Carle

"This very hungry caterpillar literally eats his way through the pages of the book--and right into your child's heart."--"Mother's Manual." "Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative."--"The New York Times Book Review." Full color.


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Carle's classic tale of a voracious caterpillar who eats his way through the days of the week and then changes into a eautiful butterfly has been reissued in a sumptuous twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a shiny, silver-coated cover and wonderfully thick, durably pages.
—The Horn Book

"The very hungry caterpillar literally eats his way through the pages of the book—and right into your child's heart..."
Mother's Manual

"Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative..."
The New York Times Book Review

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From the publisher

THE all-time classic picture book, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! Have you shared it with a child or grandchild in your life? Carle's classic tale of a voracious caterpillar who eats his way through the days of the week and then changes into a eautiful butterfly has been reissued in a sumptuous twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a shiny, silver-coated cover and wonderfully thick, durably pages.
--The Horn Book "The very hungry caterpillar literally eats his way through the pages of the book--and right into your child's heart..."
--Mother's Manual "Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative..."
--The New York Times Book Review

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  • Title The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Author Eric Carle
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Philomel Books, New York
  • Date 1981-10-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780399208539 / 0399208534
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 12.02 x 0.43 in (21.54 x 30.53 x 1.09 cm)
  • Ages 02 to 05 years
  • Grade levels P - K
  • Reading level 460
  • Themes
    • Gifts & Games: Eric Carle
    • Holiday: Christmas
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Toy and movable books, Butterflies
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93137494
  • Dewey Decimal Code NA

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Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/1994, Page 17
  • People Weekly, 09/09/2013, Page 49

About the author

Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into 70 languages and sold over 55 million copies. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. In 2003, Carle received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award) for lifetime achievement in children's literature. In 2002, Eric and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (www.carlemuseum.org) in Amherst, Massachusetts, a 40,000-square-foot space dedicated to the celebration of picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world, underscoring the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of picture books and their art form. Eric Carle passed away in May 2021 at the age of 91. His work remains an important influence on artists and illustrators at work today. www.eric-carle.com
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