#41
Title: Clara Caterpillar
Author: Pamela Duncan Edwards
Illustrator: Henry Cole
Genre: Children’s Picture Book
Challenges: 100+, Read and Review, Pages Read, Book-a-Week, A-Z, New Authors, Support Your Local Library
Rating: A
Published: 2001
Date read: 7/3/09
Number of pages: 30

From the front fly page, “Clara is a cute cabbage caterpillar. But to Catisha, who is catty and crimson, Clara is only a common caterpillar with no hope of becoming a colorful butterfly. Sure enough, Clara comes out cream colored. And during an encounter with a hungry crow, Clara proves that being colorful and conspicuous doesn’t compare with being common, content, and courageous.

Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole’s comic and compelling alliterative collaboration is captivating!“

I loved reading this book to my granddaughter if we only got through the first have, if that. Like Aesop’s fables, there is more than one moral to the story - one of which could “A friend in need is a friend indeed”.