Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a perennial favourite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through the week. **********Don't miss out on other Very Hungry Caterpillar and Eric Carle books: The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First 100 Words: a lift-the-flap bookThe Very Hungry Caterpillar's Hide and Seek: a finger trail lift-the-flap bookThe Very Hungry Caterpillar's Magnet Book: with 8 chunky magnets Sleep Tight, Very Hungry Caterpillar: a lift-the-flap bookThe Very Hungry Caterpillar's Birthday Party: with a special fold-out surprise Where Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar: a lift-the-flap bookThe Very Hungry Caterpillar Touch and Feel PlaybookThe Very Hungry Caterpillar Little Learning Library The Very Hungry Caterpillar Big Board BookThe Very Hungry Caterpillar Book and ToyThe Very Busy SpiderThe Bad-Tempered LadybirdFrom Head to Toe
CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Carle
EAN: 9780241003008
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 273 g
HEIGHT: 135 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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GENRE: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Insects, Spiders, etc., JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / Counting & Numbers, JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / Date & Time
WIDTH: 187 cm
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Book Themes:
For children c 0–36 months, Picture books: character books, Children’s interactive and activity books and kits, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
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 70 languages and sold over 55 million copies. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 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 (www.carlemuseum.org) 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. www.eric-carle.com
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