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Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book by Eric Carle ISBN: 0-399-22690-7 Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.72 (140 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Children's classic
Comment: Another great story from Carle. His illustrations are always fantastic, but his stories can be erratic. This on is a dead-on hit. It is the brief story of a caterpillar's feeding frenzy before he makes his metamorphosis into a butterfly. The book introduces children to the days of the week, the names of fruits, and numbers as the caterpillar eats through different foods each day --two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday, etc.-- until he finally weaves his cocoon and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. This story is a hit every time. Carle's bright colors and clever die-cut artwork never cease to entertain even the youngest child, and there is surely nothing in nature closer to magic than the emergence of a butterfly. This is a beautiful and fun book that will enthrall any child.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Delightful Book That Children Love! Makes A Great Gift!
Comment: This delightful book about a caterpillar's metamorphosis to a butterfly never fails to enchant and amuse children. The tiny, ravenous caterpillar eats everything in its path from apples to cherry pie to prepare itself for the chrysalis stage, and afterward emerges as a beautiful butterfly. While kids are fascinated by the story and magical process of metamorphosis, from egg to butterfly, he/she also learns about numbers, counting, colors and the days of the week. The illustrations are bright and cheerful, the writing is full of fun.
I bought this book as a gift for a friend's two year-old, and it has become one of her favorites. The size is right also. It fits perfectly into her small hands. And Mom is thrilled with the book's educational value, as well as her daughter's giggle's as she rereads this wonderful tale.
JANA
Rating: 4
Summary: Muncha muncha muncha
Comment: Through no fault of its own, this book is perhaps best known these days as the story President George W. Bush named as his "favorite book". Ignoring the fact that the Mr. Bush was born in 1946 and the book was published originally in 1969, it's a good idea to reexamine "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" on the basis of its own merits. It is the best known Eric Carle book by far and has remained a beloved text since the day it was conceived and published.
Here's the plot, inasmuch as there is one. A caterpillar (make that a very HUNGRY caterpillar) proceeds to eat his way through an amazing and amusing assortment of fruits, sweets, and (in time) leaves. After becoming quite a fat little fellow, the caterpillar makes a cocoon for himself and eventually emerges as a splendiferous butterfly. The end.
I'm going to ignore the fact that as a child I found this book a bit repetitive. We are told that children like to hear repeated phrases in books, and perhaps this is true. From what I can recall, however, this book bugged me with its continually repeated, "but he was still hungry"s. Looking at it now, though, it is a lovely little work. The caterpillar has far more expressions on his face than I initially remembered. When he's searching for food he has a somewhat bewildered look in his eyes. When he's eaten an amusingly large assortment of foods his eyes droop as he attempts to live through his own stomachache. Oddly, the time he looks the most distressed is after he has turned into a beautiful butterfly. Now his face is contorted in such a way that his drooping eyes and open mouth make him look as if he is crooning a sentimental sad ballad to the viewer.
To be frank, I'm not the biggest Carle fan in the world. But he really was one of the forefathers of the collage picture book. And though I might prefer some of his later book to the caterpillar, there's no denying that the book has had the kind of staying power most authors only dream of. So by all means pull up a chair and take a gander at the very hungry caterpillar. It's a nice tale that amuses and entertains even as it helps children to count.
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Title: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle ISBN: 0805047905 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Goodnight Moon Board Book by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd ISBN: 0694003611 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 30 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram, San McBratney ISBN: 076360013X Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pat the Bunny (Touch and Feel Book) by Dorothy Kunhardt ISBN: 0307120007 Publisher: Golden Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Very Busy Spider Board Book by Eric Carle, Benjamin ISBN: 0399229191 Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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