"The Very Hungry Caterpillar"

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" is an amazing children's picture book designed, illustrated and written by Eric Carle. It was the winner of many children's literature awards and was voted the number two children's picture book in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers.This book has sold 30 million copies worldwide and has been described as "one of the greatest childhood classics of all time.

The book has been translated into at least 40 languages, including Dutch, French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Swedish, and Russian.

Watch "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" story online

From an egg hatches a tiny caterpillar,what it eats daily and finally how it emerge as a beautiful butterfly is the story of  "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".

The story helps kids to learn and count numbers 1 to 5,weeks of the days and introduces fruits and other foodstuffs.

In this story,the caterpillar eats


1 apple
2 pears
3 plums
4 strawberries
5 oranges
1 piece of chocolate cake
1 ice cream cone
1 pickle
1 slice of Swiss cheese
1 slice of salami
1 lollipop
1 piece of cherry pie
1 sausage
1 cupcake
1 slice of watermelon
1 green leaf

In my own experience,when I read this story to my kids,they really enjoyed and it also kindles a desire in them to eat fruits and other food stuff along with caterpillar.

You can also teach them to draw and color caterpillar.

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Drawing for Kids