The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Gujarati Edition)

by Eric Carle

Overview

The caterpillar's journey from a little egg to a beautiful caterpillar is a timeless story adored by children. Eric Carle's all-time classic is available in dual-language editions, enabling the teacher to raise the language awareness of the whole class a

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852691271
Publisher:	Mantra Lingua, Ltd.
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Edition description:	Gujarati-language Edition
Pages:	23
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.20(d)
Language:	Gujarati
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Eric Carle divides his time between the Florida Keys and the mountains of North Carolina. Visit the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Hometown:

Northampton, Massachusetts and the Berkshires

Date of Birth:

June 25, 1929

Place of Birth:

Syracuse, New York

Education:

Akademie der bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, 1946-50

Website:

http://www.eric-carle.com/

Read an Excerpt

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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By Eric Carle

Philomel Books

Copyright ©1986 Eric Carle All right reserved.
ISBN: 0399213015

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Chapter One

In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.

One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and-pop!-out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

He started to look for some food.

On Monday he ate through one apple. But he was still hungry.

He started to look for some food.

On Tuesday he ate through two pears, but he was still hungry.

He started to look for some food.

On Wednesday he ate through three plums, but he was still hungry.

He started to look for some food.

On Thursday he ate through four strawberries, but he was still hungry.

On Friday he ate through five oranges, but he was still hungry.

On Saturday he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon.

That night he had a stomachache!

The next day was Sunday again. The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.

Now he wasn't hungry any more-and he wasn't a little caterpillar any more. He was a big, fat caterpillar.

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushedhis way out and ...

he was a beautiful butterfly!

Continues...

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Editorial Reviews

A caterpillar hatches out of his egg and is very hungry. On his first day, he eats through one piece of food; on his second, two, and so on. Little holes cut in the pages allow toddlers to wiggle their fingers through the food, just like the caterpillar. Vivid and colorful illustrations and ingenious layered pages help preschoolers learn the days of the week, how to count, and how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. This picture book is considered a must for every toddler's library.

Barnes & Noble Staff

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar comes the first-ever pop-up edition of this book. When the familiar, tiny caterpillar pops out of his egg, a dial lets readers help him chug across Carle's earthy color palette. Next, the caterpillar eats his way through a week's worth of pop-up fruit, as well as a full-page display of sweet and savory treats, (resulting in a stomach-ache), before his eventual transition into a butterfly. The pop-ups, particularly a half-cylinder tree trunk that sprouts from the center of the spread and a large accordionlike cocoon, are well executed and engaging. While the prominent use of white space lends a sparser feel than in the picture book, the shimmering wings of the pop-up butterfly dazzle on the final spread. Ages 3-up. (Mar.)

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Publishers Weekly

. . . there are moments of brilliance . . . this edition has much to offer . . .

Horn Book

One Sunday a very hungry caterpillar hatched. He eats his way through a variety of foods that are boldly and colorfully illustrated. The story progresses with the caterpillar spinning a cocoon and waking up into a butterfly, illustrating one of nature's common but lovely marvels.

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot

In April of 2009, this book reached number three on the New York Times Best Seller List, which is quite an achievement for a pop-up book, and an expensive one! This edition of a book first published in 1969 and popular with children and their parents ever since, is 11 ½" by 8 ½" and 23" wide when it is fully opened! It begins with a pop-up an of an 8" green leaf with a small white egg lying in the middle. The second page has a wheel to turn that makes a new little green caterpillar move across the page, under a "warm sun," to start looking for something to eat. On the third double-page spread, fifteen large assorted fruits stand up, all of them with holes made by the caterpillar. The next page sends up pickles, cheese, sausages and pie, cake, ice cream, watermelon, and candy, all with signs of nibbling. "That night he had a stomach ache" but the next day he "ate through one nice green leaf and felt much better." A pull tab moves the caterpillar slowly down the stem of the leaf. Turn the page and there are two large flaps opening outward on opposite sides of the spread. One reveals that the caterpillar has grown quite large and the other opens to show a large brown cocoon, shaped like a Quonset hut, that he has built around himself and where he stays "inside for more than two weeks." Then, finally, on the last page, he emerges to become a magnificent 18" long glittering, multi-colored butterfly! All of the delights of the original story are preserved. It is just much, much bigger and it pops up. Reviewer: Eleanor Heldrich

Children's Literature - Eleanor Heldrich