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Dork diaries was my favorite book because I found this series when I was in fourth or fifth grade and I love the story line of the book.the author really pulled the book series together.

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One of my favorite books growing up was The Cat in the Hat. This was my favorite book because my teacher would always read this book to us. The teacher read a lot of books to our class, but this one always stood out to me.

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One of my favorite books were the big Nate series. No one really read them to me but they used to be the only books I got out of the library in elementary. I never owned a book but they were my favorite because the pictures were funny and it was easy to read back then.

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My favorite book was if you give a mouse a cookie. This was my favorite book because my teacher would always read this to us. My teacgder would read all the other books like these but this one was always my favorite.

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The Harry Potter series were some of my favorite books as a child. I read them to myself, and I owned more than one copy of the series (as I still do). The mystifying series captured my mind immediately and I got hyper focused on it. A specific book that I liked out of the series was the Half-Blood Prince.

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I used to read Pete the Cat books when I was little. I thought they were cool and I liked the books. I liked the pictures and colors in the book and I thought the books were creative.

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I have always loved Pete the Cat - I love my white shoes. Reasons I liked it was because I liked the colors, and some of the rhymes I believe. I did have the book my own but my teachers used to read it during class.

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I loved picture books as a kid as it made it more fun to read the book with images rather than just words. It made t a lot more fun.

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My favorite children’s book was Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The person who read it to me was my elementary librarian; when she had finished reading, I decided to check the book out of the library, despite not owning a copy myself. The reason it was one of my favorites was how the librarian read it to me.

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One of my favorite books growing up was Green Eggs and Ham. I read this book to myself and my mom also read them too me. Yes I owned this book. This one is one of my favorites because I have distinct memories around it.

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Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published on August 12, 1960. As of 2019, the book has sold 8 million copies worldwide. The story has appeared in several adaptations, starting with 1973's Dr. Seuss on the Loose starring Paul Winchell as the voice of both characters, and more recently an animated TV series of the same name on Netflix (which also gave the originally unnamed character Sam pesters the name "Guy-Am-I").

Green Eggs and Ham was also used in the Beginner Book Video Series along with The Tooth Book and Ten Apples Up On Top!.

Sam-I-Am offers a man a plate of green eggs and ham. However, he tells Sam that he hates this food. Throughout the story, Sam further asks him to eat this food in various locations (house, box, car, tree, train, dark, rain, boat) and with various animals (mouse, fox, goat), but is still rebuffed. Finally, Sam-I-Am offers the man to try them, and he tastes the colorful delicacy in hopes Sam-I-Am will leave him alone. When the man tries the dish, he happily declares that the dish is quite tasty.

Green Eggs and Ham was published on August 12, 1960. By 2001, it had become the fourth-best selling English-language children's hardcover book yet written. As of 2014, the book has sold 8 million copies. In 1999, the National Education Association (NEA) conducted an online survey of children and teachers, seeking the 100 most popular children's books. The children ranked Green Eggs and Ham third, just above another Dr. Seuss book, The Cat in the Hat. The teachers ranked it fourth. Teachers ranked it fourth again in a 2007 NEA poll. Scholastic Parent & Child magazine placed it #7 among the "100 Greatest Books for Kids" in 2012. That same year, it was ranked number 12 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by School Library Journal - the first of five Dr. Seuss books on the list.

Woman reading and showing Green Eggs and Ham to children.

The book teaches young children a valuable lesson about not automatically refusing something new or unfamiliar without trying it out first to actually see if they will like it or not. It has become sufficiently ingrained in the cultural consciousness that U.S. District Court Judge James Muirhead referenced Green Eggs and Ham in his September 21, 2007, court ruling after receiving an egg in the mail from prisoner Charles Jay Wolff, who was protesting against the prison diet. Muirhead ordered the egg destroyed and rendered his judgment in the style of Seuss. Senator Ted Cruz read the book on the floor of the United States Senate during his filibuster over the funding of the Affordable Care Act. Musician will.i.am has stated that his moniker is inspired by the story.

On September 28, 1991, following Dr. Seuss' death earlier that week, Jesse Jackson recited an excerpt of Green Eggs and Ham on Saturday Night Live during a special tribute segment.

TV, film, and stage

In 1973, Green Eggs and Ham became the third of the three Theodor Geisel stories, joining The Sneetches and , to be adapted into the television special Dr. Seuss on the Loose, which featured a connecting narration by The Cat In The Hat. The cartoon was voiced by Paul Winchell. The book was also released as a Beginner Book Video on VHS which included The Cat In The Hat in 1994, and rereleased with The Tooth Book and Ten Apples Up on Top in 1997.

The story was featured as one of the segments brought to life in stage-play fashion in the 1994 TV-film In Search of Dr. Seuss.

Sam-I-Am appeared as a recurring character in season two of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, performed here by John Kennedy. In one episode of the show, Sam assists the Cat in the Hat and his Little Cats with their indoor picnic by preparing his special jumbo green ham and cheese sandwich.

It is adapted as part of as a number during curtain call.

In the 2008 American computer animated adventure comedy film Horton Hears a Who!, the food Green eggs and Ham are seen and eaten by Mayor McDodd (voiced by Steve Carell), Sally (voiced by Amy Poehler) and their 99 daughters and their son JoJo (voiced by Jesse McCartney).

A 2D hand-drawn animated television series based on the book, Green Eggs and Ham premiered on Netflix in November 2019. It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and A Very Good Production and distributed by Warner Bros. Television. The cast features Michael Douglas as Guy-Am-I (the unnamed character in the original book) and Adam DeVine as Sam-I-Am, with Ellen DeGeneres serving as executive producer. The fox (named Michael and voiced by Tracy Morgan), mouse (nicknamed Squeaky by Sam and voiced by Daveed Diggs), and goat (simply named The Goat and voiced by John Turturro) appear as secondary recurring characters. Each episode is narrated by Keegan-Michael Key.

The Animaniacs episode "The Warners and The Beanstalk" parodies both Green Eggs and Ham and Jack and The Beanstalk. After Ralph T. Guard in the role of a giant captures Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, the Warners try to get him to eat 'gold eggs and meat', but the giant refuses each time, saying, "I does not like gold eggs and meat. It's you who I would like to eat". The opening lines are spoofed by Ernest Hemingway as "I am sad. Sad, I am. I would not eat blue figs and lamb" in "Papers for Papa".

The Johnny Bravo episode "Cookie Crisis" has Little Suzy as a Buttercup Scout trying to get Johnny to buy her cookies. Johnny is on a strict diet and attempts to avoid her, but she keeps following him at every turn.

The Green Eggs & Sham live album by English punk rock band Sham 69, released in 1999, parodies the book title itself.

The Regular Show episode title "Pam I Am" is a pun on the character Sam-I-Am, but not the story itself.

Upstate New York Hazardous Materials Warning incident

The quote "Would you. Could you. On a train?" was unexpectedly used on a misinformed Emergency Alert System activation targeting viewers in Upstate New York shortly before the train crash in Hoboken, New Jersey on September 27, 2016. The quote was used on a Hazardous Materials Warning message that was accidentally activated on Utica's NBC television station WKTV during an evening newscast.

At Universal's Islands of Adventure, in Seuss Landing, there is a restaurant called Green Eggs and Ham Cafe that originally served green eggs and ham sandwiches, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, chicken fingers, and fries. As of 2019, the restaurant now serves tater tot-based meals, including green eggs and ham tots.

Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham is a single-player video game for Game Boy Advance based on the 1960 book of the same name, and was published by NewKidCo and released in November 2003. The book was also made into a Living Books adaptation for the PC in 1996, and there were similar differences to reflect the new media such as Sam-I-Am sings his opening lines.

לֹא רָעֵב וְלֹא אוֹהֵב (Lo rá'év wlo owhév, 1982, Hebrew ISBN 9789652294661)

Grønne egg og Skinke (March 2021, Norwegian)

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2. ^ A 50 -year feast in 50 words Archived August 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Marketplace. Retrieved August 13, 2010.

3. ^ "Happy Birthday Sam-I-Am! 50 Years of Green Eggs and Ham". Gnews. 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012.

4. ^ "All-Time Bestselling Children's Books". Publishers Weekly. December 17, 2001. Archived from the original on December 25, 2005.

5. Menand, Louis. ^ "A Critic at Large: Cat People: What Dr. Seuss Really Taught Us". The New Yorker. December 23, 2002.

6. ^ Kids' top 100 books Archived February 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine NEA: National Education Association. Retrieved November 26, 2006.

7. ^ "Teachers' Top 100 Books". NEA: National Education Association. Retrieved November 26, 2006.

8. ^ National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".

9. ^ "Parent & Child 100 Greatest Books for Kids" (PDF). Scholastic Corporation. 2012.

10. ^ Bird, Elizabeth (July 6, 2012). "Top 100 Picture Books Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. School Library Journal (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Archived from the original on December 4, 2012.

11. ^ "Judge makes 'Green Eggs and Ham' ruling". NBC News. September 23, 2007.

12. ^ "ORDER the egg filed by the plaintiff is to be destroyed re: 55 Motion for Contempt, injunction", Wolff v. NH Department of Corrections et al (Case 1:2006cv00321), September 18, 2007, Filing 56[permanent dead link ]

13. ^ ""Would You. Could You. On a train? Wait for further instructions" being demonstrated in an unexpected Emergency Alert System alert". Snopes. October 3, 2016.

14. ^ Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham at Metacritic

15. ^ "Dr. Seuss in Hebrew is More Amazing Than You'd Think". March 2, 2018.

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I used to read check this book out from the library all the time. I think the librarian read this to us once and that’s how i found out about it. I don’t own this book. I don’t know what made it my favorite but i loved to read it.

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Some of my favorite children’s books were Love You Forever, Pinkalicious, and Goodnight Moon. My dad usually would read me stories as a kid. Yes, I owned Goodnight Moon. I don’t really have a specific thing that made Goodnight Moon my favorite, I just remember reading the book a lot.

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i loved the fly guy books they where free ar points and where very enjoyable as a kid. they where simple and fly guys is a great fly. I believe fly guy is the goat of children books

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I used to read these as a kid and I like them because they were written about a real event. They were really good books

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Lauren Tarshis is the author of the New York Times bestselling I SURVIVED series which tells stories of young people and their resilience and strength in the midst of unimaginable disasters. Lauren has brought her signature warmth and exhausive research to topics such as the September 11 attacks, the destruction of Pompeii, Hurricane Katrina, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, among others. Lauren lives in Westport, Connecticut. In addition to writing the I SURVIVED books, Lauren is the editor of Storyworks magazine.

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I read a lot when I was little but I remember this book as one of my favorites. The librarian would read this to us. I don’t think I ever owned the book but I would check it out at school.

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Pete the cat was definitely my favorite. I do not remember what teacher read this to me, but I think it was Mrs koffman. This was an amazing book for kids and I definitely recommend.

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when i was in 3rd and 4th grade i really liked the harry potter books and checked them out every time i went to the library at school.

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I read a lot of I Survived books in the library when I was smaller. I liked learning about historical events and I read them to myself.

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My favorite books as a kid were definitely the diary of a wimpy kid books. I loved these books and have read almost every single one. These books are very funny and relatable and that’s why I like them so much.

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This was my favorite book growing up I always had it in the library and reading it.

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I really liked this book as a kid it was a really good book I liked all the Pete the cat books.

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My favorite books as a kid was all of the Pete the Cat books. I owned all of them and I read them to myself. I thought these were the past books

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I used to read Thea’s in elementary school and I had bought the whole series from the book fair at the elementary school

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I have lots of favorite books when I was a kid, but this one was probably my favorite. It was read to me lots during elementary school. I just thought it was like funny when the teachers would like read it. When the teachers would read these books it was always my favorite, because I didn’t think they were boring, they always kept my attention.

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I used to like the Pete the Cat books. I remember learning how to read with Pete the cat. I thought Pete the cat was funny and there’s no bad book in the series.

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I really liked this book when I was younger because i thought it was funny. My mom would always read it to me and my brother. I had my own copy so I could follow along.

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My favorite childhood book was Charlottes Web. I liked this book because of all the characters and animals in it. We would read it in school and I owned the book.

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I liked the book The Giving Tree the most growing up. The book had a good message behind the book. I read the story in elementary school. I never owned this book.

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From Shel Silverstein, New York Times bestselling author of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic, comes a poignant picture book about love and acceptance, cherished for over fifty years. This classic is perfect for both young readers and lifelong fans. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy."
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Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation.

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One of my favorite books was The Giving Tree. We would red it in school and I had a copy of my own. I liked this book because it taught a good lesson.

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Some of my favorites were the pigeon books, five little monkeys jumping on the bed and cat and the hat books especially one fish two fish red fish blue fish. I did own the book and I read it by myself. I like how the book rhymes.

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I liked this book a lot whenever I was little. I read this book a lot when I was little. Our elementary teachers read it to us.

I always thought it was funny, and it is very nostalgic.

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My favorite children’s book is The Cat in the Hat. During Elementary teachers would read Dr. Seuss all the time and this book was just always my favorite.

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Some of my favorites are Pete the cat and no David. Some teachers read to me and sometimes I read to myself. I owned Pete the cat. I just really enjoyed Pete the cat because I like animals

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Charlotte’s Web was my favorite book when I was younger. We read it in elementary school and I would read it by myself because I had my own copy. I really liked this book because of all of the animals.

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My favorite children’s book was Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I read these to myself in elementary school. I owned one of the books in the series. They were my favorite because they were funny and interesting.

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Captain underpants books has stood out to me has a classic children book. Captain underpants was the frist chapter book I’ve read. While the books plot was offset by person walking around in underwear.

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One of my favorite childhood books was the rainbow fish. I had a copy of it at home and my grandma used to read it to me every night.

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I really liked the stink moody books because I think that he was really funny and I liked the plot of the books in this book he gets a jaw breaker and the jaw breaker didn’t actually break his jaw so he sent the company a letter and he got a lifetime supply of jawbreakers

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I always read the I Survived book series I loved that series my favorite of which would be the Hindenburg Disaster. I had the whole collection of books, i wish i had some of the books,The history and fiction of these stories all in one, it made me think of and i think i even made my own in 3rd grade,

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One of my favorite childhood books was this book. I’d sit and reread it. When I was younger I thought this was a book I could sit and laugh at. I the got the book at home to read so I didn’t just read it at school.

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My favorite childhood book was Llama Llama Red Pajamas, My mom would read it to me and it kinda scared me and that’s why it stuck with me.

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My favorite childen book as a kid was The Rainbow fish. The reason this was my favorite book is because i love the story it tells and I think the fish is very pretty. I also remember this book also being my moms favorite and she used to read it to me.

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Cat In The Hat is probably my favorite childhood book. I would challenge myself to read them because of how they rhyme and it would be hard for my young self to read. I’ve owned a few Cat In The Hat books. They rhyming is what made them my favorite books.

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When I was younger my grandma used to read this to me all the time before bed she would read this to me and I even still have the same copy to this day

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My favorite books when I was younger were the I survived series. I love learning about history and I did Jen I was younger too, these books helped me learn about history and get a little bit of a perspective of what it felt like to be in the events they were about.

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My favorite children’s book was Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Nobody ever really read them to me I read them by myself and I would sometimes read a whole book in one day. I owned a couple of the books but not all of them. They were my favorite because they were really easy to read. They were also funny and interesting.

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My favorite books as a child was Garfield because he made me happy. My mom would read them to me, which gave me good memories

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I really liked Dr. Seuss when I was growing up because all my elementary teachers read them to us. Sometimes they would correlate Dr. Seuss books with what we were learning in class to try to make it more enjoyable. The only thing I didn’t like about these books was that they had a lot of repetition in them.

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My favorite children book is if you give a mouse a cookie. I liked this book because I like when the teacher would read it in class and show us the pictures. I also had a copy of the book in room to read it myself. It was my favorite from all the pictures.

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Pinkalicious was my favorite childrens books because they were colorful and entertaining. Growing up I loved to read and I generally picked up books based on the colors on the cover which is what made these books stick out to me when I was little. I read them to myself.

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One of my favorites was Clifford the Big Red Dog. My dad used to read it to me and my sister when we were little so it just has stuck with me. I did own the book.

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I liked any of the magic treehouse books because I remember being young and feeling like I was in the book. There was so much detail that I could imagine how everything was. I read these to myself and I had the whole set. These are not picture books but I could picture these in my head.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar was my favorite childhood book because my grandma would read it to me before bed every single time i was over after making us a snack and every time i think of the book i think of her.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a 1969 children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by American children's author and illustrator Eric Carle. The plot follows a very hungry caterpillar that eats a variety of foods before pupating and emerging as a butterfly. It incorporates elements that contribute to juvenile education, such as counting, the days of the week, food, and a butterfly's life cycle.

Since the book's publication, it has sold more than 50 million copies, been translated into more than 60 languages, won various awards, and has been adapted for television. It has been lauded as "one of the greatest childhood classics of all time," and has received praise for its iconic art style, featuring collage artwork and holes in the pages where the caterpillar "ate" through.

On an early Sunday morning, "a tiny and very hungry caterpillar" hatches from his egg and searches for something to eat. For the following five days, Monday through Friday, the very hungry caterpillar eats through an increasing quantity of fruit: one apple on Monday, two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday, four strawberries on Thursday, and five oranges on Friday. Each day, however, the caterpillar is still hungry. On Saturday, he feasts on: one piece of chocolate cake, an ice-cream cone, a pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake and a slice of watermelon. Later that night, he gets a stomach ache.

The following Sunday, the very hungry caterpillar eats a green leaf. Now "big and fat", he builds a cocoon around himself and stays inside of it for more than two weeks. After, he nibbles a hole and pushes his way out, emerging as a large, multi-colored butterfly.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is Carle's third book.

The plot originated as a story called A Week with Willi the Worm, which featured a bookworm named Willi. Carle was inspired to write the story after using a hole punch that made him think of a worm. Ann Beneduce, Carle's editor, advised him that a green worm would not make a likable protagonist, instead recommending a caterpillar.

Carle was allegedly inspired to have holes in the pages where the caterpillar had "eaten" through the various foods, by differently shaped books he had read as a child in Germany.

The book was originally published by the World Publishing Company (US) in 1969. It was originally printed in Japan due to high US publishing costs resulting from the holes in some of the pages. The book is currently published by Penguin Random House, who bought the title from Carle in 2019.

Since its publication, The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold over 50 million copies, or roughly one copy every thirty seconds.

The book has won numerous awards including the American Institute of Graphic Arts Award in 1970, the Best Children's Books of England in 1970, the Selection du Grand Prix des Treize in France in 1972, and the Nakamori Reader's Prize in Japan in 1975. The New York Times also cited it as one of the "Ten Best Picture Books of the Year" in 1969.

Furthermore, the book placed at number 199 in the Big Read, a 2003 poll conducted by the BBC to determine the United Kingdom's best loved books. It was one of the few picture books to place on the list. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Five years later, School Library Journal survey of readers named The Very Hungry Caterpillar as the second-best children's book.

In 2020, The Very Hungry Caterpillar was number ten on the list of "Top Check Outs of All Time" by the New York Public Library. It also won the best children's classic accolade at the Sainsbury Children's Book Awards in 2019. Carle said that this award was a "perfect way" to celebrate the book's 50th anniversary.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar introduces Lepidoptera life stage concepts depicting metamorphosis from a 'hungry caterpillar' to a 'beautiful butterfly'; the Royal Entomological Society endorsed the book due to the scientific accuracy of this transformation.[citation needed ]

In 2021, researchers from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia criticized a number of books, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, for not being culturally diverse, and finding that teachers were over-relying on classic titles which reflected dominant culture and outdated viewpoints and lifestyles. In an article for the Australian Journal of Teacher Education, the researchers expressed concern about classic books which only contained animal characters, finding that animal stories decrease the likelihood of children from minority backgrounds seeing characters representative of themselves. They recommended classic titles be placed alongside more contemporary texts which better represent a more modern culturally-diverse society. The findings were criticized by media commentators such as Kel Richards and Erin Molan.

This book includes educational themes such as counting, the days of the week, foods, and a butterfly's life stages. However, the book does not appear as didactic; rather, it presents information discreetly without children realizing it. It has been used by elementary school teachers, librarians, and parents as a teaching aid, with activities developed that incorporate the book. Furthermore, the pictures allow for understanding without reading.

The book contains "familiar sequences" or patterns when referencing days of the week and numbers. These patterns help young readers read naturally and can reflect their own knowledge of the world. The patterns can encourage word recognition strategies while reading, rather than beforehand.

The book's predictability also allows for Oral Cloze exercises, exercises where an adult reader can omit a day of the week or number and the child can insert it. These exercises help children gain confidence in predicting language and enforcing pre-existing knowledge.

New elementary Common Core standards emphasize more informational texts in primary education; books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar mend the divide between informational texts and elementary engagement. The book is captivating for young learners, while also providing lessons on counting, days of the week, and metamorphosis.

Storytelling/classroom activities

The Very Hungry Caterpillar's format allows for expansion into a classroom activity. Children can engage in creative practice and storytelling by inserting their own foods and drawings into each day of the week. Using the book's format, children can incorporate their own interests; thus, they are telling their own stories. Sharing their renditions with peers, students again engage with storytelling.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar has met Beowulf in secondary classrooms in an effort to prompt academic and sophisticated discussion of picture books. Main reasons for integration include the universal themes of picture books and providing visual aids for comprehension. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has themes that extend past young children and its integration with Beowulf can help engage secondary aged students.

This book has been used in the fight against childhood obesity. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the CDC, philanthropic groups, and anti-obesity campaigns utilize this book to teach children about healthy eating. In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics sent out special copies of the book, with associated learning tools, to health providers, for a campaign to healthy eating in the U.S. Carle supports the usage of his book to promote healthy eating.[citation needed ]

This book was used by former first lady Barbara Bush as part of her campaign to promote literacy. In 1999, the pizza restaurant Pizza Hut asked 50 U.S. governors to name their favorite books from childhood. The then-governor of Texas, George W. Bush, named The Very Hungry Caterpillar, despite having been 23 years old at the time of its publication.

In 2009, Google celebrated the book's 40th anniversary by rendering the logo on its main search page in the style used in the book.

UK/US releases

The Very Hungry Caterpillar was adapted for UK television on September 1, 1993. Then on October 17, 1994, it was released as a VHS video distributed by PolyGram Video. It was re-released on June 16, 1997, distributed by Channel 5 Video, a sub-label of PolyGram. On March 18, 2002, it was re-released again by Universal Pictures as part of an anthology called The World of Eric Carle that included The Very Hungry Caterpillar along with four other Eric Carle stories.[citation needed ]

This anthology utilized a classical music-influenced soundtrack by Wallace & Gromit composer Julian Nott. Narration on the UK releases were performed by Roger McGough and Juliet Stevenson; this version was briefly released in the US by Scholastic. Then on August 5, 1995 Disney released a US dub version with narration by Brian Cummings and Linda Gary. After Disney's adaptation, the film and TV rights were sold for £1 million.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar was released on DVD on April 24, 2006, as a part of an anthology called The World of Eric Carle; it was presented by the Illuminated Film Company and broadcast by Ventura Distribution.

The anthology, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and four other stories, was also released on DVD in the US by Disney and in the AU by ABC DVD. The DVD was also adapted into a 10-track CD, titled The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories.[citation needed ]

There have been multiple unique book editions, with personalized features. Games, pop-up books, a book/card game combination via University Games, and an educational video game- The Very Hungry Caterpillar's ABCs - released by CYBIRD Co. Ltd. for WiiWare in 2010.

In the story, the caterpillar builds a cocoon, and a butterfly emerges. In reality, a caterpillar that makes a cocoon emerges as a moth, while a butterfly will emerge from a chrysalis; various media sources have highlighted this inaccuracy.

Eric Carle responded to this by stating:

"And here's my unscientific explanation: My caterpillar is very unusual. As you know caterpillars don't eat lollipops and ice cream, so you won't find my caterpillar in any field guides. But also, when I was a small boy, my father would say, "Eric, come out of your cocoon." He meant I should open up and be receptive to the world around me. For me, it would not sound right to say, "Come out of your chrysalis." And so poetry won over science!"

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a 1969 children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by American children's author and illustrator Eric Carle. The plot follows a very hungry caterpillar that eats a variety of foods before pupating and emerging as a butterfly.

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My favorite childhood book was the Rainbow Fish. I remember reading it a few times throughout elementary school. I liked the story and thought the fish was pretty.

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One of my favorite books was the magic treehouse. My teachers in elementary school read them a lot to the class and I owned some of them. I didn’t like to read but I liked these books and sometimes read them

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One of my favorite books I have ever read is probably Harry Potter. It was probably one of my very first more advanced books I had read. I think I read it in sixth grade by myself, and I got it from the school library. I loved the plot, the characters, and the excitment the book gave me. What made the book even better was getting to watch the movies after reading the books. It really made the book come to life.

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I had lots of favorite books when I was younger but my most favorite book was the very hungry caterpillar. My dad would read it to me almost every night. I always had multiple copies of it around my house so I could always read it.

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My favorite childhood book(s) were the Junie b jones series , I didn’t have a specific favorite but I read them all the time

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As a kid I loved Pete the Cat. I owned the whole series, it was my favorite becuase it is the set of books that taught me how to read. I used to sit in the living room of my grandparents house and read these books with them

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My favorite books were the magic treehouse books. Mrs. Swallow read them to my class in 2nd grade and then I had gotten all of the books afterwards. I always liked how something new was happening in each book and I got to imagine how they looked on my own instead of looking at pictures. My granny went to books a million with me and bought some for me that I didn’t already have. She read the books with me.

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The Rainbow fish is definitely my favorite book, I only have one book that is sitting on my shelve which is the rainbow fish. This book was read to me so many times and I even did some homework on it one time, my parents used to always read me this book whenever, either in the day time or at night I loved this book because the lesson is rainbow fish is the difficulty of sharing and the impact that sharing has on people and your friends

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When I was younger, I LOVED this book. I would make my dad read it to be every night before he went to work. As I got older it grew more and more significant to my life. When I was little, I admired this book for its color and rhymes, but now I like it because it proves that you can go anywhere and do anything, you can say no to paths everyone else goes down, and that you are capable of making your own decisions.

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Dog man was always a favorite for me. I used to read these books everyday no matter which one it was but I read them. My mom never let me get the books because they were too expensive.

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One of my favorite books was the giving tree i think tells a good story

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Growing up my favorite books to read were the captain underpants books. When I was younger I didn’t really like to read but for some reason these books always made me want to read, after I read the first book I had my mom by the rest of the set and I read them all.

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I had lots of favorites, but one of the best had to be “ love you forever.” My mom read this to me, and we owned the book.

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This book was read to me lots of times throughout elementary school. I us3d to love this because because in my little 6-8 year old mind, this was funny. “No, David!,” was read to me by plenty of my teachers at Sutton Elementary. Just thinking of this crazy little kid doing funny stuff to be bad was just amusement for me.

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Reading was one of my favorite things to do when I was younger, because I was a very imaginative kid. But a book that I absolutely loved reading growing up, was Where the Wild Things Are. It’s an old story, and I still love reading it to this day.

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My mom used to read these books to me. We had a copy of these books for ourselves. They were just interesting books

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Diary of a wimpy kid books are probably my favorite because they’re honestly so unfunny that it makes them funny.

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I had many favorite children’s books when I was younger, but my all time favorite was Harry Potter. This isn’t normally a children’s book but every night my mom would read a chapter for me before I went to bed, and I have loved the series ever since. When I was younger I only owned the first book, but now I own the whole series. This book became my favorite because of of how much creativity it had and how much fun the characters had in the book. I also just really love fantasy books because you can live in any world you are able to imagine.

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One of my favorite children’s book would be the Giving Tree. My mom would read it to me as a nighttime book. We had and still have two copy’s of the book. I read it to my little brother sometimes. Its my favorite children’s book because it teaches you not to take anything for granted and appreciate what you have.

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The Dork diaries books were my favorite, because they were about a girl around my age living everyday life and having normal problems so i liked reading about that.

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I have many favorite children's books. The one pictured above is one of my ALL TIME favorites! My mom would read this book to me when I was growing up. I had a copy then, and I have a copy now for my own children. We enjoy reading this book together, because it is a great reminder that everyone has bad days.

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a 1972 ALA Notable Children's Book written by Judith Viorst and illustrated by Ray Cruz. It has also won a George G. Stone Center Recognition of Merit, a Georgia Children's Book Award, and is a Reading Rainbow book. Viorst followed this book up with three sequels, Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday, Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move, and Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever.

Alexander narrates the story of having a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day. From the moment Alexander woke up, he noticed the bubble gum that was in his mouth when he fell asleep had now gotten stuck in his hair. Then, when he got out of bed, he tripped on his skateboard. In the bathroom, he accidentally dropped his favorite sweater into the sink while the water was on. His brothers, Anthony and Nick, find prizes in their breakfast cereal boxes, whereas Alexander does not.

In the carpool on the way to school, Alexander sits between two other kids in back and his complaints are ignored. At school, Alexander's teacher, Mrs. Dickens, discourages his picture of the "invisible castle", which is really just a blank sheet of paper. She later criticizes him for singing too loudly, and scolds him for skipping the number 16 at counting time. At recess, Alexander's best friend Paul tells him that he is now only his third-best friend, then Alexander finds that his mother neglected to include a dessert with his lunch.

After school, Alexander's mother takes him and his brothers to the dentist, Dr. Fields, who finds a cavity in Alexander. Alexander then recalls other bad things on the way back to the car. First the elevator door closed on his foot and outside Anthony pushed Alexander into a mud puddle and Nick called him a "cry baby". Finally, when Alexander started hitting his brother for calling him names, his mother scolded him for getting dirty and starting a fight.

At the shoe store, Alexander wants blue sneakers with red stripes, but they are sold out. His mother buys him plain white shoes, which are the only shoes available in his size, but he refuses to wear them. When his family comes to pick up his father at the office, Alexander plays with the copying machine, knocks over books, and tries to use the telephone, resulting in the father asking the family not to pick him up anymore.

That night, after having lima beans for dinner, Alexander is disgusted by kissing on TV, his bathwater is too hot, soap gets in his eyes and his marble is lost in the drain, Then, he is forced to wear his "railroad-train" pajamas. Lastly, at bedtime, Nick has taken back a pillow he said Alexander could keep, Alexander's nightlight burns out, he bites his tongue, and the cat chooses to sleep with Anthony instead of him.

A running gag throughout the book consists of Alexander wishing to move to Australia because he thinks life is better there. His mother assures him that everybody has bad days, even people who live in Australia. In the Australian and New Zealand versions of the book, he wants to move to Timbuktu instead.

On September 15, 1990, the book was adapted into a thirty-minute animated musical television special that was produced by Klasky Csupo and aired on HBO in the United States. Along with some alterations to the designs of the supporting characters, along with the cat's name being Timothy, and additions to the plot, most notably Alexander searching for his lost yo-yo throughout, the special also included three original songs:

"So much to do, so little time in the morning"

"If I could be the only child"

"I've had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day"

Daniel Tamberelli as Alexander (speaking voice)
Todd Defreitas as Alexander (singing voice)

Joey Rigol as Nick

Devon Michaels as Anthony

Linda Wallem as Mom

Steve Barton as Dad

Stephanie Maddin as Mrs. Dickens

William Bogert as Dr. Fields

Skip Hinnant as Shoe Salesman

Ashley Carin as Girl #1

Erin Torpey as Girl #2

Buddy Smith as Paul

Daniel Riefsnyder as Phillip

Z. Wright as Albert

In 1998, Viorst and the Kennedy Center joined together to turn the book into a musical production. Charles Strouse wrote the music, Viorst wrote the script and lyrics, and the musical score was composed by Shelly Markham. The productions have been performed around the country. Other characters in it are Audrey, Becky, and many others.

A Disney live-action film adaptation with not much involvement from the book was released in 2014. In 2020, it was reported that another film version was being developed for Disney+.

Alexander and his two older brothers, Anthony and Nick, are based on Viorst's own three sons of the same names. But the film changed Nick to Emily, replacing the brother with a sister, and adds Trevor as well.

The phrase "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad . . ." has become an Internet meme, often used by bloggers, and sometimes by mainstream media, to criticize, or characterize setbacks for, an individual or political movement. The title is also used in the song " A-O-K" by Tai Verdes.

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a 1972 ALA Notable Children's Book written by Judith Viorst and illustrated by Ray Cruz. It has also won a George G. Stone Center Recognition of Merit, a Georgia Children's Book Award, and is a Reading Rainbow book.