The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a children's picture book written by Eric Carle and first published in 1969. Since then it's been a staple of many childhoods and been translated into over fifty languages.
It tells the story of a caterpillar who eats his way through a great deal of food before ultimately becoming a butterfly.
A game based on the book called "The Very Hungry Caterpillar's ABCs" has been available on WiiWare since September 2011.
Tropes used in The Very Hungry Caterpillar include:
- Beautiful All Along: He's kind of cute at first, but at the end, he's a beautiful butterfly.
- Big Eater: The titular caterpillar eats several times its own size in food over the course of a week.
- Reality Ensues: But after eating too much, he has a bad tummy-ache!
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin
- Shown Their Work: Caterpillars really are big eaters (although they usually only eat one type of plant) before becoming chrysalises.
- What Could Have Been: The original draft for the story involved a book worm.
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