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Ben Ollodart The Very Hungry Caterpillar By: Eric Carle Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Author: Eric Carle Illustrator: Eric Carle Genre: Picture Book Number of pages: 30 Publisher's recommended age(s): 2 – 4
 * Bibliographic Data:**

In this fun loving children’s book, comes //The Very Hungry Caterpillar//. This story involves a caterpillar that hatches from his little egg, but is continuously hungry. As time goes on, the caterpillar eats more and more food each day, but when the last day comes he gets a stomach. After a week of eating, the caterpillar eats some leaves, becomes a big, fat caterpillar, and soon builds a cocoon, and becomes a beautiful butterfly.
 * Summary:**

The writing style that the book uses is illustrations and writing style. The books uses a variety of bright pictures that helps relate the story to what the children are reading. As the children read the story, they can see that there was a little egg that the caterpillar started as. When the caterpillar wants to eat, the pictures show the type of food and how much of it the caterpillar has eaten. The illustrations really help make the story more exciting and interesting for children. The repeating phrases throughout the story help students to expect what is going to happen next. Inserting the days of the week, change up the writing, but at the end of the sentence, the same sentence is repeated for children.
 * Analysis of a Literary Element:**

This was one of my favorite books as a young child growing up. Since I liked food so much, I enjoyed hearing a caterpillar eating as much as I could. I would always try to see if I could eat as much as he did, but it never happened. The illustrations are what the book is known by. Showing that a little caterpillar can eat so much food, and then afterwards you can see how big he has gotten. This is a good beginning story for children because it has great pictures to match what the children are reading, on top of a simple repetition of sentences.
 * Book Review:**

Eric Carle was born on June 25, 1929 and is known for his writing of //The Very Hungry Caterpillar//. Since the publication of his book, he has written more than seventy books. Carle studied school in Germany, but his dream was always to come back to America. Carle bases his books or nature and studies everything he needs to know about children. This is why he is able to create such wonderful children’s books that children, to this day, love and cherish.
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