Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: Shade Evans

Book Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Author: Eric Carle
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Eric Carle
Publisher/Year: The World Publishing Company/1969
Evaluate the Book for the following elements
Style and Language: Using examples for the book, explain the following: Word
choices, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme and sentence length. Share unexpected insights or
interesting information the reader learns from this story. (5 points)
Right at the start of the book the author used the word ‘pop’ when the caterpillar
came out of his egg.

He was a very hungry caterpillar which is used in the title we may assume he will eat
a lot.

Its nice that the children can learn counting and participate in the counting while the
reader is reading the book as he going each day eating more pieces of food.
I love the insight that can be added to eat healthy and eating a lot can give someone,
even a little caterpillar a stomachache.

Character: With examples from the book, provide the following- (5 points)
Who is the main character?
How can the reader relate to the character?
Who are the supporting characters?
The very hungry caterpillar

After waking up in the morning being very hungry and wanting to eat breakfast or
even after physical activity how hungry you might feel. Also, eating to many sweet
and other food and how it could give you stomachache.

I suppose the supporting characters could be the food if not there are no supporting
characters. At the end it could even be the butterfly he transforms into.
Plot: Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)
Each piece of food he wats through its astonishing that the list keeps going at one
point. Counting all the food he eats as the days go on and on the last day, Saturday
ow he eats through so many different pieces of food that eventually give him an
upset stomach. He does end up eating through a leaf and feels better where he forms
a cocoon and transforms into a beautiful butterfly.

Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)

Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
The way the story starts and going through it seems to be placed outside in the trees
or even in an area close to like a picnic or a house because of the variety of foods the
caterpillar eats.

Illustration: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories
Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)? (2
points)
Realism is most represented in the book, from the caterpillar itself to the fruit even
when it turns into a butterfly.

Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk):
(2 points)
Watercolor seems to be what it mostly looks like in the pictures
Maybe even just some additional paints.
Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the
illustrations: (3)
Line: Very ridged and bold especially like on the sun and food items
Shapes: It was quite simple to notice the shapes in the books from the half circle of
the sun, the pie slice, plums, and fruits being circle and oval.
Color: The colors were quite simple yet eye catching. Having multiple hues of each
color, like in the pickle and ice cream cone.
Texture: The texture was in my opinion sort of plain. Not very, much life like texture
in the leaf and dirt or even the sky and the moon. Just remarkably simple and plain.
Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and dark space and
all pages the same or different). (3)
The pages are noticeably similar, a white background with what food the caterpillar
had eaten with a tiny hole where he ate through.

Child Development Theory: Choose either Piaget, Erickson or Social Emotional to

describe the connection to the book Chose 1 only (5 points)
Erickson:
Name the stage ___Initiative Vs. Guilt____ and the age______3-5____________

I feel that it this stage best fits because the caterpillar is exploring all the options in
eating and trying new things and although being hungry means that you should eat
but the result and somewhat guilt that happens when eating so much to help make
better choices when feeling hungry and wanting to eat certain foods.

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: _____3_________

Why?
It represents and is a great book to make fun for children including counting and even
incorporating math with adding each food the next day and all together how many
foods that were eaten in one day and all together.

Very Hungry Caterpillar Extension Activity

Your Name: Shade Evans

Book Title: The Very Hungry caterpillar

Book Author: Eric Carle

Publisher: The World Publishing Company

Date: 6/28/2020

1. Pre-K/CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standard

N.PK.3Use tools safely to observe and explore different objects/environments.
L.PK.3 Identify humans, animals, and plants.

2. Objectives (What will children expect to learn?)

The animals need to eat food even humans, where animals might live in certain areas in this case
the caterpillar lives in the tree. Using magnifying glasses to observe life cycle of butterflies.

3. Materials and Equipment needed:

Magnifying glass
Butterfly lifecycle acrylic cubes
Photos of butterfly lifecycle
Leaf x-ray magnifying slides

4. Teaching (What will you do?)

After reading the story ask student where the caterpillar lived?
What was around the living are? Dirt, leaves trees
Show pictures of each stages of caterpillar life cycles and talk about what is different in each
stage. Allow students to look at each model cube with magnifying glasses to dissect the live
differences in each stage of the life cycle.

Allow children to attempt to draw each stage of the butterfly life cycle.

5. Closure:
Explain how most animals starts out at different stages and transform into a different form of
themselves. Flowers and caterpillars and ask what they might think transforms and has
different stages in their life.