subject: The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Source of fun and knowledge [print this page] The Very Hungry Caterpillar Source of fun and knowledge
The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published by the World Publishing Company in 1869. it has been very popular among children that's why the 30 million copies of this book has reached to the readers. It has been estimated ihat this book is sold every 30 seconds in the world. This books is of about 225 words in 22 pages with colorful pictures. This book has won a lot of awards from many publications, libraries and other institutions. In 2003, BBC had conducted poll to find out it's popularities. Result was amazing, this was listed among the Best Loved Books. After it's huge success, publisher decided to translate it into 50 languages. It very amazing that the Children Story Books are very wonderful source to get knowledge. Author puts some informative content in the story in form of fun and carrying over this tradition, Eric Carle has also put some informative contents for the children. They can learn number, names of day, about week and different types of foods. Though the story is a fictional work but author has described the making chain of butterfly.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar follows the story of a Caterpiller that eats variety of foodstuff before it became a butterfly. Caterpillar eats different foods on different days such as apple on Monday, two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday and so on. This story was adapted for television program by IIIuminated Film Company in 1993. It has been declared as the greatest childhood classic all time.
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