The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Wild Animal Hide-and-Seek
By (Author) Eric Carle
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
4th May 2021
29th April 2021
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
Picture books: character books
Board book
12
Width 217mm, Height 218mm, Spine 15mm
437g
Come and play hide and seek in the wild with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this finger trail lift-the-flap board book! The Very Hungry Caterpillar is playing hide and seek in the wild! Discover snoozing lions, happy hippos, plodding elephants and many more. Lift-the-flaps to find hidden baby animals and follow the finger trails to explore. A gentle, rhyming narrative with a die-cut finger trail, die-cut details and a chunky flap on every page. There is so much for little hands to explore in this fun first introduction to wild animals and their habitats.
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