📚 Baby/Children’s Book of the Week: # 4 ~ The Very Hungry Caterpillar 📚
It's already Week 4 of our journey! Time sure flies when you’re reading some great books!
This week I’m sharing one of my favorites from when I was a child. I have very fond memories of my mum reading this story to me and it warms my heart that I’m sharing it with my kids now.
Reading aloud to your child is a wonderful shared activity to promote language development and early literacy skills in a fun and stimulating way, and as Dr. Seuss would say:
~ Dr. Seuss
Maybe even “caterpillar green”?
Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Author: Eric Carle
Illustrator: Eric Carle
Ages: Preschool and up
Click here for:
- Coloring Page:
- Valentine’s Day Card:
- Video: Watch and listen as Eric Carle reads the story
- Pinterest: Fantastic activities to ago along with the story
Often described as "one of the greatest childhood classics of all time”, The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a story about, as you might expect, a little green caterpillar and his journey to becoming a butterfly. Starting out as a very tiny and hungry caterpillar he “eats” his way through the book trying a variety of foods and leaving holes in the pages as he goes…
On Monday he ate through one apple
But he was still hungry.
For such a short story, Eric works some educational wizardry and includes counting, the days of the week and different foods. As parent this book is a wonderful learning tool that doesn’t detract from the story.
The illustrations are made using a “collage” method, by cutting and pasting tissue paper onto a line drawing. Something which would be fun to do at home using the coloring page above.
How many items does he eat on Saturday?
Do caterpillars really eat chocolate cake?
What happens when he goes to sleep?
You’ll just have to read the book to find out!
Be sure to check-out the above activities courtesy of Eric-Carle and Pinterest for fun ideas including rhyming and matching activities, letter tracing, crafts, coloring pages and so much more.
Purchase from Amazon or borrow from your local library.
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Link to last week’s book: The Mitten
Original content by @redwellies
Its not a favorite from my Childhood, but one I read to my girls and remember t so well still today
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@tattoodjay I'm glad that you were able to enjoy his book with your girls and I'm sure that when they're older and have kids of there own, they'll reach for it and have fond memories of you :). Thank you also for the extra vote :)
IT is a book that should go through generations
And most welcome :)
that´s really a wonderful book, I also connect it with memories of my mum..
it´s definitely a book my 'maybe children' will have to listen to when I´m reading:)
I love that you also connect it with your mum! It's definitely a keeper along with his other books which aren't so well known :)
A classic!
It sure is!! No wonder it's been translated into over 50 different languages :)
Every baby have a right to possess a book. And dont you think he do have a right to listen to his parents read stories for him too.
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@dawitnet I do agree! Reading to your child is such an important part of being a parent :)
Do you come in chocolate flavor, too??!!
@enchantedspirit LOL!! I hope not, I'm going to have nightmares about that!! Fixed TY :)
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