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

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.

The very hungry caterpillar celebrates some of the things it's thankful for.

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.

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.

Invites children to join the Very Hungry Caterpillar and take a moment to breathe and relax.

A caterpillar learns to be patient while trying to metamorphosize.

On a lift-the-flap adventure, the Very Hungry Caterpillar hunts for Easter eggs.