When Pete the Cat's new caterpillar friend goes missing, Pete has to find out what happened.

This book uses simple rhymes and engaging images to teach readers about caterpillars.

Introduces the different types of caterpillars and how they move, eat, protect themselves from predators, and transform into a butterfly or moth.

Illustrations and rhyming text follow ten caterpillars as one wriggles up a flower stem, another sails across a garden pool, and one reaches an apple leaf, where something amazing happens.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar celebrates the holiday season, from presents and snowflakes to Santa Claus.

The very hungry caterpillar displays its love for the reader as the cherry on a cake, the apple of an eye, and the bee's knees.

Rhyming, repetitive text introduces several caterpillars with varied appearances.

Impressed by the proud caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar very carefully and turn into a butterfly too.

"A caterpillar lives a simple life on his leaf until one day, an UnKnown Thing picks him up and calls him beautiful. A question forms in the caterpillar's mind: What is beautiful? So begins a quest to discover the true meaning of the word beautiful. Much to the caterpillar's surprise, each animal in the forest has their own unique definition"--

The hungry caterpillar and his friends enjoy the sensory experiences of summer, like listening to noisy bugs, feeling the warm sunshine, smelling the yummy scents of a cookout, and more.