The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The third book in Caterpillar series of kids books following “The Caterpillar” and “The Hungry Caterpillar”, comes “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. The much anticipated (but never printed) final books in the series, “The Starving Caterpillar” and “Caterpillar Confessions: The Caterpillar That Sold his Body for Food but Eventually Became a Junkie” were said to have inspired the film The Basketball Diaries with Leonardo DiCaprio.

After the book's success in English, alternative international versions were created to spark more interest in the series, most notably, “Stuffed Caterpillars” which became a staple cookbook through Africa in the mid-1980's.