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Description

1. 28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 22 x 31 cm.

Summary

1. Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days. A caterpillar eats a great deal and then spins its cocoon. Library of Congress Summary. Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days. 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, durable pages.

Subject

1. Metamorphosis > Juvenile fiction
2. Butterflies > Juvenile fiction
3. Caterpillars > Juvenile fiction
4. Caterpillars > Fiction
5. Butterflies
6. Caterpillars
7. Metamorphosis

Genre/Form

1. Fiction.
2. Juvenile works.
3. Toy and movable books.

Call number

1. J PIC C

Author

1. Carle, Eric, author.

Title

1. The very hungry caterpillar / by Eric Carle.

Publisher

1. New York : Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, [1987]

Copyright date

1. ©1987

Edition

1. Revised.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

LCCN

1. 79013202

ISBN

1. 0399208534
2. 9780399208539

Research call number

1. J PIC C