The Very Hungry Caterpillar
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I have always been a fan of Eric Carle books, and we have the whole series, included the Very Hungry Caterpillar! \nMy husband and I decided to accompany the book with its teether Rattle for our little one when he was 4 months old because we thought he would enjoy the reading time of this book more... we were right.\nHe has loved the book and his rattle too. He loved let the toy caterpillar eat the pages while I was reading for him and put his little fingers in the holes.\nThe illustrations are so unique and eye catching, the colors are bright, the pages are sturdy and the story holds his attention.\nThis book, like the others of Eric Carle, is interactive and rhythmic.\nChildren learn easily colors, the name of different fruits and foods and even counting how many are in each page. \nThe book is small so it's easy to hold for a baby/toddler and very durable.\nA must have"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Even though we built quite a collection of children\'s books during the seven years I spent babysitting our three grandsons, it\'s always a delight to discover another to add. This one brought back memories of carefree summer days as a child, how exciting it was to find a caterpillar outside, to feel that little tickley sensation as it would move up my arm, and being amazed when my mother told me it would one day become a butterfly! I\'m so pleased with this little board book that uses the life stages of a butterfly - from egg to caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly - to teach counting, colors, days of the week, foods (not to mention a recipe for a stomach ache!) - very sturdily constructed, brightly illustrated, and at 7" x 5" and a hair less than an inch thick, it\'ll fit perfectly into the chubby little hands of our two year old little guy on his birthday!\n\nThe different sized pages in the middle of the book (after the caterpillar pops out of his egg on Sunday morning) showing different foods with holes punched in the centers to indicate where he\'s nibbled through them are darling - each page is thick enough that I think I\'m going to cut a caterpillar-sized piece of green pipecleaner to give him so he can watch his very own caterpillar making its way through the one red apple he eats on Monday, two green pears on Tuesday, three purple plums on Wednesday, four red strawberries on Thursday, five bright orange oranges on Friday, and then the variety of multi-colored foods (probably not a caterpillar\'s scientifically accurate diet, but fun!) he eats on Saturday that leads to his stomache ache - chocolate cake, ice cream cone, pickle, Swiss cheese, salami, lollipop, cherry pie, sausage, cupcake and watermelon - goodness gracious!\n\nOn Sunday, he limits himself to one green leaf, builds his "small house, called a cocoon, around himself", stays in there for over two weeks before he emerges as a multi-colored butterfly, whose wingspan takes up the final two pages! Though we probably won\'t expect our grandson to comprehend the scientific term of metamorphosis, he\'ll certainly grasp that the caterpillar\'s transformation is magical - a pretty good description of the book itself!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Eric Carle's book has been a staple of children's literature for a long time. This board book is especially nice because it is so sturdy and will hold up to use by the smallest child. This book is one of my favorites to give as a new baby gift. The colors are vibrant, and there are many interesting pictures and opportunities for the young reader and parent to engage when looking at the book."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'My baby loves loves loves this book! He is 2 and really likes the pictures of the different foods with the holes. It makes him laugh and smile and he loves saying the names of the different foods. He constantly pulls this book out to read. We have a lot of fun with him. It just gets him excited. I think every baby needs this book.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'my son is obsessed with this book, (he\'s 2) and he even sleeps with it. He loves the "bug-gy" (maybe some day he\'ll say \'caterpillar\') but for now bug-gy is just fine.\nThe book is the story of a very hungry caterpillar who eats and eats and eats some more, and then sleeps in a cocoon (or a "cackoon" as my son says) and wakes up and emerges as a beautiful butterfly.\nThe book is short, but fun for littles.\nRecommended 100%'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I got this book for my 16 month old daughter. A friend had it for her son, and I just needed to have it. The book is perfect, the colors are bright and beautiful. We love it! There are no flaws, the quality is incredible. 100/100 recommend! The illustrations are adorable, and the story is too cute.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Our 1.5 year old son didn't always enjoy meal time due to health reasons. This book has definitely helped him a lot to be motivated to try to eat more. We tried to feed him the foods that he is able to eat that match the book and ask him if he also wants to eat with catipilar and he will eat 80% more that way. We leave one sentence out when we read to him...the part about feeling sick/too full. He always asks for more food and more catipilar now. It's not a book that he just allows us to read once and be done. The pages are easy for little fingers to turn due to the varying sizes. He tries to poke his fingers in the holes but they're getting too big to fit which is a good thing. Sometimes he will try to look through the holes too. The golden sticker celebrating 50 years was scratched/ damaged upon arrival.. .not that our son even noticed."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "My daughter's dad accidentally destroyed my daughter's favorite book, a copy of the very hungry caterpillar that her grandfather had sent her from across the country. She's a toddler but she was clearly upset that her book was in pieces. I jumped on Amazon and found this listing. Some of the reviews were saying how tiny the book is and this was about half the price that was printed on the back of her old copy so I almost didn't order it. Luckily, I took a chance and two days later, Alice had an exact copy of her favorite book. She had just walked over and grabbed her old torn book and was trying to put the pieces together when I opened this package. I laid it on her old book and she smiled real big and ran off with it while I picked up and disposed of the old one. It's a legitimate issue of the book. I think they are smaller than when we were kids (wasn't it really big?) but this is still a great size especially for young kids."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "If you are looking for a book to buy for a small child this is the one. I bought this book for my grandson as a gift for his baby shower. When I was in Kindergarten in 1988 I loved this book so much and it just so happened that our class play was The Very Hungry Caterpillar in which I played an Orange. Being the oldest of 7 children I passed this love of the story on down to each sibling and then on to my children. When I was buying gifts for my grandson's baby shower I noticed my daughter had it on her registry so I just HAD to be the one to buy it. The durability of the hard book makes it great for infants and toddlers book collections as it will not rip and cleans up fairly easy when extra illustrations are added with crayon or markers lol"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I did not even see this product. It was a gift, and shipped directly to the recipient. But I know the book well, from when my own children were small, and when my first grandchild was born. It is an excellent early 'board book', with holes to put their fingers through, and multiple colors, and many fruits to name -- and at the end, a butterfly! An early introduction to growth and change, every child should have it read to them so many times they have it memorized, and can 'read' it to themselves."}]