Steven Senne/AP/Shutterstock Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Massachusetts preschoolers. During a stop at a Massachusetts preschool on Monday, Second Gentleman ...

Eric Carle, Author and Illustrator of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ Dies at 91 The beloved story of a ravenous insect has sold 40 million copies and been translated into 60 languages ...

Eric Carle said The Very Hungry Caterpillar was "a book of hope", in a BBC interview in 2019. ... The simple but everlasting tale - just 224 words long - has been translated into 62 languages.