However, children often feel attracted by features such as pictures and illustrations, format, length, colour, and type of print. At first glance, Carle’s Caterpillar seems to belong to the educational type of picture books since it probably aims at teaching the life cycle of a butterfly. Can they really be divided so clearly or are there also picture books that fulfil both functions? The Caterpillar basically deals with the development of a caterpillar from being an egg to becoming a very colourful butterfly whereas the main focus is on the stage of the caterpillar that is very hungry and eats a lot of things during one week before pupating and finally becoming a butterfly. Picture books can usually have the purpose to either teach children or they are intended to simply please them. Picture books like Carle’s Caterpillar are usually given to young children who are not yet able to read, hence they include pictures and they assume that ‘pictures communicate more naturally and more directly than words, and thus help young readers make sense of the text they accompany’. It can be classified as a picture book since it corresponds to a picture book’s usual definition as ‘a combination of verbal texts and visual images’. The picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar was written, designed and illustrated by Eric Carle and published in 1969. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and… he was a beautiful butterfly!’
He stayed inside for more than two weeks. The caterpillar ‘built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself.
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