The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Author: Eric Carle
Illustrator: Eric Carle Publisher: Scholastic Year of Publication: 1989 Genre: Fiction Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating: (1) |
Summary: The story begins with a little egg lying on a leaf. One day a worm pops out of the egg and endures an adventure of trying to satisfy the hunger his has for food. By the time he is satisfied things change in his favor.
Summary of Professional Reviews: According to the Horn Book database, this book was rated as a 1. Eric Carle does a fantastic job of illustrating the adventure of how a caterpillar eats its way through the days of the week and then uses the cycle of nature to change itself into something magnificent.
Review by Stephanie Kuchavik: Eric Carle uses exception colors to attract and keep the interest of his readers. I think that the illustrations are fairly realistic and children, who know the particular food that the caterpillar eats in the story, will be familiar and relatable to the children’s knowledge. This book would be great to use in a read aloud. The children will be able to broaden their knowledge of the days of the week and numbers. For children who already may know the cycle of the butterfly, they can predict the particular stages that the butterfly goes through.
This book would be useful when teaching children the ages of two to eight.
- This story can be utilized to teach a science lesson of the cycle of a butterfly.
- This story can also be used to practice counting. The story line gives the opportunity for children to be able to count the food that the caterpillar eats through. This can then be extended into a math lesson plan.
- The lesson plan of metamorphosis can be used as the introduction to counting and numbers and the days of the week.