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  • Published: 4 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241720851
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 10
  • RRP: $21.00

123: Learn and Play with The Very Hungry Caterpillar

A Lift-the-Flap Book



Count along with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this interactive board book filled with chunky peep-through flaps on every spread!

Introduce numbers 1 to 5 with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this playful lift-the-flap early learning series!


Count along with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and discover two leaping frogs, three colourful fish and more bright and bold animal friends!


Each page of this chunky board book has been thoughtfully designed with a peep-through flap to encourage little ones to join in and finish the number sequence. Perfect for getting very little ones excited about learning their very first numbers!

Discover more early learning books with The Very Hungry Caterpillar:
Colours: Learn and Play with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eats Dinner: A shapes book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First 100 Words
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First 100 Animals
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Touch-and-Feel Animals

  • Published: 4 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241720851
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 10
  • RRP: $21.00

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About the author

Eric Carle

Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into 70 languages and sold over 55 million copies. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. In 2003, Carle received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award) for lifetime achievement in children's literature. In 2002, Eric and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (www.carlemuseum.org) in Amherst, Massachusetts, a 40,000-square-foot space dedicated to the celebration of picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world, underscoring the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of picture books and their art form. Eric Carle passed away in May 2021 at the age of 91. His work remains an important influence on artists and illustrators at work today. www.eric-carle.com

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