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...

Follows the development of a butterfly from mating to birth of the caterpillar to chrysalis to the emergence of the butterfly.

On a lift-the-flap adventure, The Very Hungry Caterpillar hunts for Easter eggs.

Excerpts from Walt Whitman, the Bible, Chinese nursery rhymes, and other literary sources accompany illustrations of such insects as the cricket, grasshopper, and puss-mouth caterpillar.