The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First Signs

ASL That Babies & Toddlers Can Use

Author Eric Carle
Illustrated by Eric Carle
Ebook
On sale Jul 15, 2025 | 24 Pages | 9798217050154
Learn ten words in American Sign Language with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this introductory board book!

This engaging board book introduces ten essential signs that will help babies and toddlers learn to communicate with those around them. With their familiar friend The Very Hungry Caterpillar and photographs modeling the signs, young children and their families will love to read and practice again and again!
© Penguin Random House
Born in the United States, Eric Carle was taken as a six-year-old child by his parents back to their native country, Germany. Later, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Applied Arts) in Stuttgart, and returned to New York in his early twenties as a graphic designer and artist. His many picture books are now known and loved by children around the world.
 
In 2002, Eric and his late wife, Barbara, opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the works of distinguished picture book artists, nationally and internationally acclaimed, are exhibited in three spacious galleries.

Eric Carle passed away in 2021, at the age of 91. View titles by Eric Carle

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Learn ten words in American Sign Language with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this introductory board book!

This engaging board book introduces ten essential signs that will help babies and toddlers learn to communicate with those around them. With their familiar friend The Very Hungry Caterpillar and photographs modeling the signs, young children and their families will love to read and practice again and again!

Author

© Penguin Random House
Born in the United States, Eric Carle was taken as a six-year-old child by his parents back to their native country, Germany. Later, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Applied Arts) in Stuttgart, and returned to New York in his early twenties as a graphic designer and artist. His many picture books are now known and loved by children around the world.
 
In 2002, Eric and his late wife, Barbara, opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the works of distinguished picture book artists, nationally and internationally acclaimed, are exhibited in three spacious galleries.

Eric Carle passed away in 2021, at the age of 91. View titles by Eric Carle