Very Hungry Caterpillar

Famished munching grub

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a 1969 children's picture book by Eric Carle, featuring a caterpillar who eats through increasingly large amounts of food before transforming into a butterfly.

The book is a staple of early childhood, known for its distinctive collage illustrations and pages with die-cut holes.

My toddler wants to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar every night.

Related

strawberry · plum · pickle · cake · stomach · green · fuzzy · crawling · nibbling · holes · pages · Eric Carle · picture book · board book · children's literature · transformation · munching · growing

Opposites
appetite/consumption state

Very Hungry Caterpillarstuffed

Filled beyond capacity

satisfied · sated · replete · satiated · full

life cycle stage

Very Hungry Caterpillarbutterfly

Winged insect from caterpillar

imago · chrysalis · moth · monarch butterfly · cocoon

children's literature character type

Very Hungry CaterpillarThe Giving Tree

Arbor offering all it has

Oliver Twist · Charlotte's Web · The Velveteen Rabbit · Goodnight Moon

Family

hungry, caterpillar, hunger, hungrily, hungers, hungered, hungering, caterpillars

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G