I can't say as much as I'd like to without giving the entire story away. I didn't find the story to be "cute" in any way and there were no life lessons to be learned by the children. The entire story was very contrived. The author was trying to make things cute by having the children name the caterpillars things like "Wormy". The end of the story was not a twist, it was a tragedy. I do have to admit I did chuckle a bit at the end but I was actually more relieved than anything that the story was over.