My youngest daughter absolutely loves books and when we were looking what to buy her for Christmas I came across this book when I was flicking through the Amazon site and remembering I loved it when I was younger I bought it for her.

The book can be bought from all good book shops and online on sites such as Amazon, the RRP of the book is £6.99 which is about a normal price for this type of book.

The front cover of the book is a white background with a bright green caterpillar on the front, the green is made up of lots of different shades and he has a bright red face. The book is written by Eric Carle and is published by Puffin books.

The story follows a small caterpillar who hatched out of a tiny little egg and is very hungry. The caterpillar starts the week on a Monday and eats just one apple, one Tuesday he eats two pears, on Wednesday he eats three plums, on Thursday he eats four strawberries and on Friday he eats five oranges. When Saturday comes the caterpillar is still hungry and so he eats his way through a banquet of a piece of chocolate cake, an ice cream, a pickle, a slice of cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake and a piece of watermelon and not surprisingly he ends up feeling sick. On Sunday he east through a full green leaf and the n since he was then a big fat caterpillar and he builds himself a cocoon, the book finishes with the caterpillar emerging a beautiful butterfly.

I love this book and have done since I was a child, I love the simpleness of the story but also it introduces counting and fruit names aswell as the way a butterfly is created. My eldest daughter knows this book from school and she can tell you what is going to happen on each page before you even turn the page. My youngest daughter will sit and read this book with you over and over again, when you stop reading it with her she will sit and turn the pages again picking out words that she remembers from the story herself which I love to hear from her and I love to see how much she enjoys the book.

The pictures in the book are all bright and simple and the majority of the pages don't even have a coloured background just simply a white sheet of paper with the subject of the text on it. The book is a decent size which makes it ideal to lay over mine and my daughter's knees so we can all see the pages and there is no fighting over the book. This book is really a classic in my opinion and I can see it being around for many more years to come.