The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The very first food the caterpillar ate through in the book.
What is one apple?
True or False: The book starts with the Very Busy Spider being born.
What is false?
Ah, what a victorious moment for the Very Quiet Cricket when he finally chirped at the end of the book! But wait -- who was he "talking to" at that time?
What is a female quiet cricket?
The Very Lonely Firefly kept searching for this in the book. (Well, the word "lonely" is a dead giveaway, right?)
What are friends/other fireflies?
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle is the only insect protagonist in Eric Carle's Very series that speaks in the book. This is the click beetle's catchphrase throughout the text.
What is "How very clumsy of me."
The day of the week on which the Very Hungry Caterpillar was born.
When is Sunday?
This animal asked the spider who built the beautiful web they saw, but of course, the spider wasn't able to answer because she was asleep.
What is an owl?
The first insect to "talk" to the little cricket after the little cricket was born
What is a big cricket?
At the end, it is revealed that the human family of four gathered together to see this.
What are fireworks?
With a loud CLICK the click beetle flipped through the air -- did three graceful somersaults -- and landed on his back after he encountered this.
What is a person/ human?
The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published during this year. It was also the same year Apollo 11 landed and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps onto the moon.
When was 1969?
This was the first farm animal that tried to distract the spider.
What is a horse?
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's story happened over the course of about 3-4 weeks, but the Very Quiet Cricket's happens faster. WAY faster. Remind me, how long did it take for the little cricket to finally find his voice?
What is one day?
The firefly saw three lights that came from animals' reflecting eyes. Two of them were a dog and a cat. Remind me, what was the third one, again?
What is an owl?
The first animal the Clumsy Click Beetle shows off its flipping skills to
What is an earthworm?
Name all ten food items the Very Hungry Caterpillar ate on Saturday.
What are one slice of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon?
The spider spun the web so she could catch a fly. But this farm animal asked the spider if she wanted to do so first.
What is a rooster?
Before the Very Quiet Cricket bumped into the female cricket, this insect soared silently through the night, and the cricket "enjoyed the stillness".
What is a luna moth?
This was the first light that the firefly saw and flew toward.
What is a lightbulb?
Out of the four options below, the click beetle did NOT cross this during its walk at the beginning of the book.
A dirt mound, a flower, a pile of pebbles, a tree
What is "a dirt mound"?
As surprising as it is, the Very Hungry Caterpillar wasn't always --- well, a caterpillar. This was the book's initial title before Eric Carle's editor decided a caterpillar would be a more likeable character.
What is A Week with Willi the Worm?
Fun fact: the collage of the dog is not just any dog. It's actually a portrait of Eric Carle's dog, who was named after this canine character in Norton Juster's book, The Phantom Tollbooth.
Who is Tock?
What are a locust, a cicada, a dragonfly, and some mosquitoes?
Out of the five options below, this is the light source that the firefly did not see in the book.
A candle, a flashlight, a lantern, a lamp, a car's headlights
What is "a lamp"?
True or false: The story of the Very Clumsy Click Beetle happens over a period of two days.
What is true?