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[[wikipedia:'''''The Very Hungry Caterpillar|A''''' is a children's picture book written by [[Eric Carle]] and first published in 1969]]. Since then it's been a staple of many childhoods and been translated into over 50fifty languages.
 
It tells the story of a caterpillar who eats his way through a great deal of food before ultimately becoming a butterfly.
 
A game based on the book called "The Very Hungry Caterpillar's ABCs" has been available on [[Nintendo|Wii WareWiiWare]] since September 2011.
 
 
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* [[Beautiful All Along]]: He's kind of cute at first, but at the end, he's a ''beautiful'' butterfly.
* [[Big Eater]]: The titular caterpillar eats several times its own size in food over the course of a week.
** [[Reality Ensues]]: But after eating too much, he has a ''bad'' tummy-ache!
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Caterpillars really are big eaters (although they usually only eat one type of plant) before becoming chrysalises.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original draft for the story involved a book worm.
 
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