Author and Illustrator: Eric Carle
*Summary: This is an amazing book that tells about a number of things the children hidden in the story of a caterpillar. The story tells about the life cycle of a butterfly that comes out of the egg in a caterpillar form. Then he eats various foods like fruits and other processed foods with increasing numbers day by day, and finally, he suffers from stomachache. For which he eats green leaves and gets better. Eating makes him a big fat caterpillar. Then he makes a house termed a cocoon. He stays there for two weeks and finally comes out as a grown butterfly.
*Why is it Appropriate for Toddlers and Two’s:
The book is absolutely for toddlers and 2-year-old babies as it includes illustrations along with pictures and colours. The story is beautifully written, and versatile information is taught to the children. The writer has smartly tried to teach the toddlers and twos about counting, the names of fruits and other foods and the names of days of the week. The writer also teaches the children about good and bad foods. By eating fruits, the caterpillar grows well, but by overeating processed foods like cheese, pickles, chocolates and ice cream, he gets ill. So, the book clearly teaches children that fruits are a healthy diet compared to processed foods and that overeating is not good for health.
*3 Activities Related to the Book:
1. Plastic toys of caterpillar and butterfly shapes (Object Play):
Children will be provided to play with plastic/rubber toys of caterpillar and butterfly shapes.
2. Filling pencil colours to fruits by repeating their names (Art):
I will provide fruit shapes printed on paper related to this story and will ask the children to fill in pencil colours in each drawing. In this way, children will identify fruits.
3. Singing the story in poem form (Music): At the end of the story, after reading it, we will sing it in poem form. Like:
A caterpillar, caterpillar comes out of an egg
He feels very hungry,
On Monday, he eats one apple.
And so on…
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