The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle [SECOND EDITION HARDCOVER] 1983 • Philomel Books

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 

SECOND EDITION HARDCOVER [1983] PHILOMEL BOOKS

14th Philomel Printing / November, 1983. 

Near identical to the true 1969 first edition, published by The World Publishing Company.

Hardcover minus dust jacket in very good condition. 

Some shelf wear to boards.  Inside is near-mint.  Pages and flaps are pristine and look and read like new; *one purple ink smudge on caterpillar page (see last photo) -- beautiful copy!

The all-time classic story, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! Have you shared it with a child or grandchild in your life?

One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry. On Monday, he ate through one apple; on Tuesday, he ate through three plums--and still he was hungry. When full at last, he made a cocoon around himself and went to sleep, to wake up a few weeks later wonderfully transformed into a butterfly!

The brilliantly innovative Eric Carle has dramatized the story of one of Nature's commonest yet loveliest marvels, the metamorphosis of the butterfly.