This video from YouTube shows you one of Maria's ACTUAL books -- look at her wonderful pictures, and can you spot the portrait of her?
This is a video of one of the ducklings ACTUALLY HATCHING in our classroom last time we did this topic. The eggs had been kept moist and warm in the incubator, and then.... wait and see!
This is a video from YouTube, made by a little boy in America - I wonder if he'll teach you something new about the fabulous Maria Merrian?
The YouTube video, made by Waterstones to celebrate 40 years of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, shows Eric Carle talking about how he wrote the story, and about how he makes his artwork.
Ella took this short video for you last week, of a duck family at Petersfield Lake . The longer video won't load at the moment, so I'll try it another time. Can you count how many ducklings this duck and drake have to keep an eye on?
I'm missing reading you all stories, so here's one called 'Caterpillar Dreams' ...
This YouTube version of Eric Carle's book is read by Roger McGough - look carefully at the colours and the patterns in Eric Carle's artwork. How do the different colours make you feel? Do the pictures go well with the music? Why?