The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Author:: Eric Carle
Format:: Boardbook
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Short description

This picture book is in a mini-board book format, complete with cutouts and collage illustrations.

Long description

A much-loved classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar has won over millions of readers with its vivid and colourful collage illustrations and its deceptively simply, hopeful story. With its die-cut pages and finger-sized holes to explore, this is a richly satisfying book for children.

Product details

Illustrator:: Eric Carle
Publisher:: Puffin Books
ISBN:: 9780241003008
Publication date:: September 1994
Additional format:: BH
Length:: 181mm
Width:: 183mm
Thickness:: 11mm
Weight:: 202g
Edition:: Miniature board ed
Pages:: 26
Illustrations:: full colour illustrations
Readership:: Age: 2+

Review

Every child should experience this wonderful, cumulative story, with its brightly coloured pictures of the tiny but greedy caterpillar that eats his way through one apple, two plums and three pears before turning into a beautiful butterfly. The board version stands up well to the inevitable poking of little fingers through the holes in the pages. (2-4 yrs) (Kirkus UK)

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Surprise Ending Completes Magical Journey
Reviewed by J Reinhardt from Cape Town on 05 September 2005
742 of 1491 people found the following review helpful:

The author manages to pack a surprising amount of characterisation and depth into what at first glance appears to be a rather claustrophobic construct - the journey of one character. Further difficulty is added by the fact that the single character has no dialogue. Then again, dialogue would have been more surprising than its absence, given that the story's protagonist starts out with a mouth comprised almost entirely of soft parts and finishes up with a mouth entirely absent of soft parts. The surprise inclusion of an element of morality, in a caution on the dangers of excessive consumption will doubtless go a long way towards pointing out to impressionable minds the dangers of a life of getting and spending. And yet, throughout, there is an air of optimism and a sense that, given the right circumstances we can all overcome the limitations of our birth. My son (22 months) found that he could really get his teeth into the story, and has in fact bitten a sizeable chunk out of the first page. If the planned movie conveys half of the wonder that the book manages, the golden age may yet return to Hollywood. At the time of writing there is a rumour that Colin Farrel (who was so effective in 'Phone Booth', another single hander) will take the title role.

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