Sleep Tight Very Hungry Caterpillar

"Sleep Tight Very Hungry Caterpillar by World of Eric Carle This one is by the publisher, on the theme of The Very Hungry Caterpillar . I chose this book because it’s a little book, based on a classic character. Many people are familiar with The Very Hungry Caterpillar , which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019. This one, although it’s not the original text, has got so much in it. In terms of age, this book would be for children who are turning one . It’s a lift the flap book, which little ones always love. It opens up so many opportunities. There’s that whole peekaboo to the animals that are behind the flaps and the physical interaction with the book. Yes, so you can have fun with that. And that repetition that young children love, the flap lifted up again and again on the same page until it becomes soft and begins to fall apart. And you can count the owls in the tree, you can look at the colours, you can discuss – even without reading the story – what’s on the page. So it incorporates that interactive game with the person reading the story to the child, it introduces them to different animals, all sorts of things. And you can spot the caterpillar on each page as well and do that whole thing of, ‘Can you see the caterpillar?’ So a whole range of ways of engaging with a child with that little book. Yes, it just kind of encapsulates so much of what the Imagination Library is about, about children having fun learning, learning without knowing they’re learning, through really enjoying the book. And it’s a nice size, a tactile book for a small child. It’s a really nicely done adaptation."