On average, every 30 seconds someone in the world buys a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Maybe it's for a grandchild, an expectant parent or a dear friend's new baby. Nearly 50 million copies ...

Why it's awesome: The bone collector is not just a very hungry caterpillar — it has an appetite for flesh. And once it finishes scavenging on dead or dying insects trapped in a spider's web, the ...

How A Very Clever Virus Kills A Very Hungry Caterpillar Scientists have found the gene that drives a virus to kill gypsy moth caterpillars in a particularly gruesome way. The virus forces the ...

Eric Carle's famous book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" has become a foot soldier (well, a many-footed soldier) in the war against child obesity.

"In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf." It's probably one of the most memorable opening lines in children's literature, and this month The Very Hungry Caterpillar is celebrating its ...

American author-illustrator Eric Carle first published his picture book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' on March 20, 1969. More than 50 years since then, the book has become a children's classic and ...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar was far from an instant success and sales were slow. “It took five or six years for me to make enough money to live a very modest life,” Carle says.

It's said to have sold a copy for every second it's been in publication and now the film rights have been sold for a seven-figure sum. So what sets The Very Hungry Caterpillar apart from the thousands ...

The caterpillar is, after all, very hungry, as sometimes we all are. He has recognized an immense appetite within him and has indulged it, and the experience transforms him, betters him.

The author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which celebrates its 45th birthday today, tells Metro how a hole punch inspired a masterpiece.

Times staff share personal memories of reading the children's books of Eric Carle, the "Very Hungry Caterpillar" author who died this week at 91.