A standalone picture book for ages 2–6 that involves counting and natural history about caterpillars and flowers.In 2012, Ten Little Caterpillars won the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Book Award.My TakeThe pages are simple with one line per spread with the succeeding line rhyming with the first, using an A-B rhyming scheme. It makes me understand why Martin used bower in one of the lines.Very cool. Martin provides the names of flowers and critters as you read, and then includes a glo...

Kids will love this book. Who doesn't love a good book about caterpillars? I am a big fan of books that told in story form, but have lots of nonfiction laced in. On each page of this book you have a caterpillar in a beautiful setting. On each page lots of things have labels telling the kids what they are: other insects, fruit, plants. The end of the book is my favorite. The caterpillars are shown as caterpillars, underneath it says what they eat, and underneath that is a picture of what that par...

Informative story of ten types of different caterpillars and the environment they dwell, and how they survive and turn into Butterflies, and Moths. Several species of plants, and trees are identified in the book also.

I read this book to a group of two-year olds and their caregivers. It was not a huge hit, although they sat and listened. The illustrations are beautiful, and it was a good introduction to caterpillars and the fact that they turn into butterflies. Although this seems like a book for young children, it uses vocabulary ("bower") that is unfamiliar to many people.

Lovely illustrations and nice rhymes. Slightly dark as it seems to hint that 9 out of 10 caterpillars are now dead.

The illustrations are so bright and vivid the pop out whenever you turn the page! This was an easy counting story explaining what "10 Little Caterpillars" were up too. I appreciated that inside the illustrations were little captions of each object. For example, there was a picture of a cardinal and below the picture, there was a small caption stating "Cardinal." That helps a child reading the book themselves and also provides a teaching tool for parents and educators that are reading this story

This one of my favorite read alouds because it has simple counting, rhyming text, brilliantly colored illustrations by Lois Ehlert, and expanded knowledge on plants, caterpillars, butterflies, and moths. Because of the range of information, this books works well with preschoolers, early readers, and more advanced elementary readers. Highly recommended for both school and public libraries.

Very cute. I love that it has little labels for each element of the illustrations.

Not just random rhymes, but factual portrayals of different breeds of caterpillars and eventually butterflies. A beautiful ode to Eric Carle. But not a great counting book as there's one caterpillar per page and no numerals.

My kids love finding and counting the caterpillars. Plus, they enjoy looking at them all at the end of the book where they show both the caterpillar and then the butterfly it becomes. Very informative!

This was a very nice picture book. It helps counting, in this case all the way up to 10. You count each caterpillar on their journeys. Some caterpillars climb flowers, some climb vegetables, some even get carried away inside a jar. I loved the illustrations of all the things surrounding the caterpillars. Each item was labeled, like the insets, vegetables, fruits. That was helpful to to teach children about those things as well. It was very colorful. One part shows a leaf that had a few holes in

Very cute book. Good for counting as well as identifying real caterpillar and butterfly species and the plants that nurture them. A lot of good effort, but it feels a little disjointed since cognitive abilities for kids who are learning numbers probably aren't going to be able to appreciate or express the differences between a Virginian Tiger Moth and a Monarch quite so soon. I mean maybe. As an amateur bug lover, I appreciated it.

A counting book with caterpillars. If you little one enjoys butterflies, bug, or counting this worth checking out. Also great for a butterfly life cycle lesson with young children. Pair with The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

I think Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is fabulous. I think Ten Little Caterpillars is good. The illustrations are beautiful. 3 stars for the text - there's nothing wrong with it and I would happily read it to a child, but it seemed a little blah and didn't stick with me at all. But it gets an extra star for the depiction of different kinds of caterpillars and the butterflies they turn into - I loved the last spread showing the caterpillar-butterfly pairs with information about which plants (pictured i...

Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Lois Ehlert, is another winning collaboration, focusing on caterpillars, counting, and nature. In this caterpillar counting book, we meet the ten caterpillars. Told in rhyme, the caterpillars are shown in various habitats. On the final pages the caterpillars are shown, with information on what they eat, with a picture of each as a butterfly. The simple rhyming text introduces each caterpillar from first to tenth.Labels in small print nam...

Title / Author / Publication Date: Ten Little Caterpillars/Bill Martin Jr./2011Genre: Fiction, Rhyming Story, Picture BookFormat: HardcoverPlot summary: Illustrations and rhyming text follow ten caterpillars as one wriggles up a flower stem, another sails across a garden pool, and one reaches an apple leaf, where something amazing happens.Considerations or precautions for readers advisory: A great book to teach children about different caterpillar species. Review citation: Walkins, L. L. (2011)....

The first time I heard this was through a not great read aloud so I think it tainted me, otherwise it might have been a 4. It’s a good book for introducing kids to butterflies and moths in an accessible way and has the detail on the endpages so you can decide how much of it to get into which I always appreciate. But honestly, it felt a bit dry, again not sure if that was just the way I first heard it read aloud. My three year old seemed ok with it but never requested it though that could have be...

Ten caterpillars are shown on the cover. The first page of the story begins with the first caterpillar crawling into a flower garden. It goes on from there; some caterpillars getting eaten by critters, some are safe eating melons and leaves. the tenth caterpillar is able to climb an apple tree and hang on, becoming a chrysalis and then emerging as a butterfly. Each caterpillar is represented in the back of the book along with its corresponding butterfly or moth.Another beautiful winner from the

Ten little caterpillars were introduced with watercolor collage illustrations. I considered this book as a narrative nonfiction because the text was in narrative form and the contents were based on scientific facts and examples that could be observed in nature. The contents were simple: describing ten different caterpillars and portraying their images. Some caterpillars would become butterflies and others would become moths after metamorphosis. The exquisite collage increases the artistic qual

4/23/22: This one is a decent read and the illustrations show exactly what the caterpillar actually eats with small little labels under each. In the back are the caterpillars, what they eat and then what type of moth or butterfly they turn into. I wanted to like this better than I did, we'll have to see what the grandchild thinks when we start reading picture books together.