Citation:-Martin, Bill, 1916-2004 and Ehlert, Lois ( ill.) Ten little caterpillars, New York: Beach Lane Books, 2011.
Annotation:-Bill Martin Jr, an elementary-school principal, teacher, writer, and poet, held a doctoral degree in early childhood education. Lois Ehlert's illustrations are very good. She has illustrated other Martin, Jr. books.
This picture book is “Ten little caterpillars” for youngsters. It is stories in rhyme.
This book has very colourful and big and bold illustrations and is also informative by labelling all the illustrations in the book. It is also a rhyming and a counting book which will keep the children interested.This beautifully illustrated book story follows ten caterpillars, each one a different species, on their journey towards becoming butterflies. The closing pages feature wonderful pictures matching each species of caterpillar with the type of butterfly they become. Ten Little Caterpillars is a good book to introduce numbers. Ten little caterpillars are on the move, One by one, they wriggle up flowers, climb cabbages, get carried off to school. But the last little caterpillar, the luckiest of the bunch, manages to crawl up an apple tree and attach himself to a branch. There, he spins his cocoon, he emerges as a beautiful butterfly. Ten little caterpillars creep and crawl through gardens, vegetable patches, and apple orchards.The pictures by Lois Ehlert are watercolour collages against a white background to focus on the flowers, mostly the caterpillars. Occasionally, creatures commonly in the habitats are included like ants, spiders, frogs, birds, and beetles. It has each item in the pictures is labelled to build vocabulary and sight word recognition.
Novelist-Information from Novelist databaseThis picture book is “Ten little caterpillars” for youngsters. It is stories in rhyme.
This book has very colourful and big and bold illustrations and is also informative by labelling all the illustrations in the book. It is also a rhyming and a counting book which will keep the children interested.This beautifully illustrated book story follows ten caterpillars, each one a different species, on their journey towards becoming butterflies. The closing pages feature wonderful pictures matching each species of caterpillar with the type of butterfly they become. Ten Little Caterpillars is a good book to introduce numbers. Ten little caterpillars are on the move, One by one, they wriggle up flowers, climb cabbages, get carried off to school. But the last little caterpillar, the luckiest of the bunch, manages to crawl up an apple tree and attach himself to a branch. There, he spins his cocoon, he emerges as a beautiful butterfly. Ten little caterpillars creep and crawl through gardens, vegetable patches, and apple orchards.The pictures by Lois Ehlert are watercolour collages against a white background to focus on the flowers, mostly the caterpillars. Occasionally, creatures commonly in the habitats are included like ants, spiders, frogs, birds, and beetles. It has each item in the pictures is labelled to build vocabulary and sight word recognition.
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