NMLP P-036659 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle · World Publishing (US) / Hamish Hamilton (UK) · 1969

Book-club and later Philomel/Putnam printings carry different imprints and later copyright pages and lack the World Publishing masthead, the 'Printed in Japan' line, and the complete '…71 70 69 / 1' number line; a 'World–Collins' imprint indicates a post-1974 printing. Club copies typically lack the price at the flap.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-036659 for "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036659, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).