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“In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf”

“One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.”

“On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon

That night he had a stomach ache.”

“He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...

… he was a beautiful butterfly!” *

~ Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

*Calliteara pudibunda, the pale tussock, is a moth of the family Erebidae

Description

“In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf”

“One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.”

“On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon

That night he had a stomach ache.”

“He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...

… he was a beautiful butterfly!” *

~ Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

*Calliteara pudibunda, the pale tussock, is a moth of the family Erebidae