Product Description
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book and Snuggle Blanket
Author(s): Eric Carle
Format: Board book
Curl up with your very own Very Hungry Caterpillar snuggle blanket and enjoy Sleep Tight, a gentle bedtime story featuring the Very Hungry Caterpillar himself.
In Sleep Tight, Very Hungry Caterpillar, children will wish crickets, owls and ducks goodnight until . . . wait . . . who's that curled up on the very last page? He's snug as a bug.
The perfect bedtime treat for fans of the original Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold over 44 million copies worldwide in over 60 languages.
Tes, the leading Teaching Resources publication, have just listed The Very Hungry Caterpillar as the number one book for 0-5 year olds - "The book that launched a thousand topics" Lisa Jarmin.
About the Author
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
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