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"The Ugly Caterpillar"
READ MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK When Annie the ant, Speckles the spider and Crumbs the cricket find a yellow egg on a leaf, they wonder what's inside. Crumbs and Speckles think that since the egg is ugly on the outside, what's living on the inside must also be ugly. Annie disagrees.

In the book, "The Ugly Caterpillar," Annie is the only one who thinks "Katy the Caterpillar" is beautiful, and she is more than happy to be her friend. During Annie and Katy's time together, Katy goes through many changes, and eventually turns into a butterfly. Annie thinks she's still beautiful. When Speckles and Crumbs meet Katy as a butterfly, they think she is beautiful and want to be her friend. But Katy explains that since they didn't like her as a caterpillar, they won't like her now...because she is still the same on the inside. Speckles and Crumbs feel terrible for treating Katy so badly when she was a caterpillar.

MyParenTime.com highly recommends this book -- what a valuable lesson children will learn. You truly can't judge a book by it's cover.

Also reviewed with this book: The Read-Along Story on CD-ROM. Hear this story while traveling, or play it for young readers to follow along with the book.

~My ParenTime August 2003

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