Introduces readers to butterflies and the process by which they go from being an egg, to a caterpillar, to a chrysalis, and finally to a butterfly

I Wonder Why Caterpillar Eat So Much is the perfect introduction to life cycles, featuring tigers, sea hoes, dancing cranes and much more. What do you want to find out? Clear, lively text answers all those tricky questions about how the world works, while friendly, funny cartooons add interest.

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days