The Very Hungry Caterpillar celebrates the holiday season, from presents and snowflakes to Santa Claus.

Follows the adventures of Henri the Caterpillar, who leaves the safety of his garden to embark on an adventure of a lifetime.

The very hungry caterpillar celebrates some of the things it's thankful for.

A little girl discovers a tiny caterpillar, and after taking care of him and feeding him leaves, she watches as he becomes a new and wonderful creature

"Whats that wedged in a crack in the ground, small and hard and wrinkly and brown? A bean seed! Soon it develops roots and leaves. And whats that on the leaf? An egg! The egg hatches a caterpillar, and the caterpillar eats the leaves, getting bigger and bigger until it forms a chrysalis. Meanwhile, the plant is growing, too: it develops flowers, then bean pods, as it reaches up toward the sun. Side by side, plant and insect grow . . . and grow . ....

Otto the worm is shocked to discover that his best friend Bob is actually a caterpillar who emerges one day as a butterfly

"The story of a very small and very hungry caterpillar. He eats food all through the days of the week. He grows from a small egg to a beautiful butterfly ..."

"When a caterpillar is called "beautiful" one day, he wonders, what could that mean? No one has the same answer. A bear declares that honeycomb is beautiful, the squirrels find dry leaves are beautiful, and a mole loves his beautiful burrow. All the while, the blackbird disagrees with each answer! Will the caterpillar ever find out what beautiful means?"-- Provided by publisher.

A caterpillar learns to be patient while trying to metamorphosize.