Garden Picnic

by Eric Carle

Read along with The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he eats some of his favorite foods in this scratch-and-sniff board book!

Munch through different foods with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this scratch-and-sniff board book! Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar Scratch-and-Sniff includes a sweet story about the classic character eating through his favorite foods and includes six fun scents to scratch and sniff on every spread for added fun.

Interactive and engaging, and with Eric Carle's bright colorful illustrations, this is the perfect addition to every child’s library and a wonderful gift for new babies, baby showers, birthdays, and other new beginnings!

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Food

12 pages, Board Book

Published July 7, 2020

About the author

Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Carle's career as an illustrator and children's book author accelerated after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. Carle illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.
In 2003, the American Library Association awarded Carle the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award), a prize for writers or illustrators of children's books published in the U.S. who have made lasting contributions to the field. Carle was also a U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010.

Reviews

[Jennifer nyc]

Fun for my niece and nephew, ages 2 & 4, but they did keep laughing that everything smells like shampoo! 🤣

[Barbara]

It’s a wonderful continuation of the original Hungry Caterpillar, and it’s another good board book to teach colors to toddlers.

[Blair]

Really cute board book! One of my daughter’s favorite bedtime books to read.

[Canette Arille]

Garden Picnic is a book that tells the story of how the hungry caterpillar was still hungry, so he ate different types of food that he likes. One by one. Beautiful illustrations complete the whole. It is like a continuation of the book about The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Fantastic book!

[Andrés]

You might call this a color book. It features red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and pink foods, all displayed on one spread on the last page. The scratch-and-sniff didn't hold up to four years of library use. I couldn't smell anything.

[Janet]

Good garden illustrations for the Hungry caterpillar to find more food in the garden. However a scratch and sniff title perhaps doesn’t belong in a circulating library as after six years there was only library odor, no fruit odors. Copyrighted 2020.

[Andréa]

Note: I accessed a digital review copy through Edelweiss.

[Boom!]

Instant favorite!

[Library Lady Terri]

Hockessin Library - Book Babies - 7.22.26

[Anna McFarland]

Now I want to go on a picnic. I’ll have to settle for an indoor one since the weather is nasty.

[H]

Can you go wrong with a The Hungry Little Caterpillar book? This is is just basically a simple rhyme that is the vehicle for six itch-and-stink spots - but only one or two of them smell as they are supposed to.

[Rose Duncan]

A quick book that talks about some different fruits and snacks you may have at a picnic. I liked pointing out the ones I knew.