The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Author: Eric Carle

Narrator: Kevin R. Free, Eric Carle

Unabridged: 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/19/2021

Synopsis

Brought to life by narrator Kevin R. Free with sound effects and music, this The Very Hungry Caterpillar audiobook includes a special read-along track of Eric Carle narrating his all-time classic story.
 
One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry. On Monday, he ate through one apple; on Tuesday, he ate through two pears--but still he was hungry. When full at last, he made a cocoon around himself and went to sleep, to wake up a few weeks later wonderfully transformed into a butterfly!
 
Whether you listen to Kevin R. Free or read-along with Eric Carle, these productions are a fantastic way to encounter Carle's famous, very hungry caterpillar.

About The Author

Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into more than 80 languages and sold over 60 million copies. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 180 million copies of his books have sold around the world. In 2003, Carle received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children’s Literature Legacy Award) for lifetime achievement in children's literature. In 2002, Eric and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, a 40,000-square-foot space dedicated to the celebration of picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world, underscoring the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of picture books and their art form. Eric Carle passed away in May 2021 at the age of 91. His work remains an important influence on artists and illustrators at work today.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on December 12, 2008

I actually gave this book 5 stars, but the very hungry caterpillar ate one of them. Also, did anyone else get a defective book? My version has a bunch of holes in it.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on December 29, 2024

RIP Eric Carle who died today aged 92. Former president George W. Bush named this his favorite book from childhood (it came out when he was 23 ... but perhaps he meant his kids' childhood). In any event it's one of my favorites from my childhood, and from reading to my own kids. Was it the first to p......more

Goodreads review by Anne on April 11, 2025

I somehow picture myself reading it to my grandkids with this disclaimer: The moral of the story is that while caterpillars can eat themselves into a food coma and come out the other end as a butterfly, humans who do that will come out the other end with type 2 diabetes. You're welcome, kids.......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on May 18, 2024

Fun fact for today? A famous picture book, described as “one of the greatest childhood classics of all time” was actually inspired by … a simple hole punch! Yes, incredibly, it’s true. The author remembers: “One day I was punching holes with a hole puncher into a stack of paper, and I thought of a boo......more

Goodreads review by John on March 16, 2024

Hungry is as hungry does. Eric Carle's vision of metamorphosis is more hand-painted collage and less existential nightmare compared to that of Franz Kafka. Our hero of the story, the caterpillar, is indeed hungry. Very hungry. He even eats his way through the pages of the book itself. All this eating i......more

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