The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Jungle Hide & Seek

A Finger Trail Lift-the-Flap Book

Author Eric Carle
Illustrated by Eric Carle
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar plays hide-and-seek in this joyful finger trail lift-the-flap book set in the jungle!

Who lives beside the monkeys, swinging through the trees? It's someone slow and sleepy…a sloth who hangs with ease!

Play hide-and-seek with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this interactive board book with indented trails for fingers to follow, and flaps to lift! With a gentle rhyming narrative and an introduction to jungle friends, this book is perfect for little explorers.
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Born in the United States, Eric Carle was taken as a six-year-old child by his parents back to their native country, Germany. Later, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Applied Arts) in Stuttgart, and returned to New York in his early twenties as a graphic designer and artist. His many picture books are now known and loved by children around the world.
 
In 2002, Eric and his late wife, Barbara, opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the works of distinguished picture book artists, nationally and internationally acclaimed, are exhibited in three spacious galleries.

Eric Carle passed away in 2021, at the age of 91. View titles by Eric Carle
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar plays hide-and-seek in this joyful finger trail lift-the-flap book set in the jungle!

Who lives beside the monkeys, swinging through the trees? It's someone slow and sleepy…a sloth who hangs with ease!

Play hide-and-seek with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this interactive board book with indented trails for fingers to follow, and flaps to lift! With a gentle rhyming narrative and an introduction to jungle friends, this book is perfect for little explorers.

Author

© Penguin Random House
Born in the United States, Eric Carle was taken as a six-year-old child by his parents back to their native country, Germany. Later, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Applied Arts) in Stuttgart, and returned to New York in his early twenties as a graphic designer and artist. His many picture books are now known and loved by children around the world.
 
In 2002, Eric and his late wife, Barbara, opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the works of distinguished picture book artists, nationally and internationally acclaimed, are exhibited in three spacious galleries.

Eric Carle passed away in 2021, at the age of 91. View titles by Eric Carle

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