The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s First Poems

★《好餓的毛毛蟲》原創詩集登場！
★ 和美國名詩人、人稱「鵝爸爸」的Charles Ghigna攜手合作，十二首原創詩歌溫暖孩子的心
★徜徉在溫馨的詩歌，讓孩子愛上押韻的文字。

　　季節的禮物是什麼？
　　春天帶來蝴蝶，夏天捎來蜜蜂，
　　秋天瞥見黃葉從樹上掉落，
　　冬天點點雪花將世界染白。
　　季節就像毛毯一般溫柔地覆蓋住世界，並輕輕道聲晚安。

　　毛毛蟲的心願是什麼？
　　我向天空中第一顆星星許下願望，
　　我盼望自己能變成：一隻大大的藍蝴蝶！

　　全球暢銷六千萬冊、翻譯成八十多種語言、最知名的童書《好餓的毛毛蟲》，與筆名「鵝爸爸」的知名作家Charles Ghigna合作，首次推出原創詩集。被譽為「美國最會寫童詩」的Charles Ghigna，作品百餘部，曾創作五千多首詩歌發表於各大知名媒體。Charles Ghigna為本書創作十二首原創詩作，再加上《好餓的毛毛蟲》系列最著名的拼貼風格繪圖，帶領小小讀者進入最溫暖的詩歌世界，讓孩子跟著詩歌的節拍，學會語言的韻律美感，是一本適合親子共讀的溫馨繪本書。

Introduce young readers to poetry with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in the first-ever collection of original poems from the World of Eric Carle!

Caterpillar’s Wish
I made a little wish
on the first star in the sky.
I wished that I could turn into—
a big blue butterfly!

This tender collection of first poems invites young readers into the world of poetry. Featuring Eric Carle’s beloved artwork and twelve original poems by award-winning poet Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), this keepsake casebound board book is perfect for little ones and their families to read and enjoy together.

Charles Ghigna (Father Goose(R)) is an award-winning children’s author and poet of more than one hundred books from Disney, Random House, Red Comet, Schiffer, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Time Inc., as well as more than five thousand poems that appear in anthologies, textbooks, syndicated newspapers, and magazines ranging from Harper’s Magazine and the New Yorker to Highlights and Cricket magazines. He has served as a poet in residence at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, an instructor of creative writing at Samford University, a poetry editor of English Journal for the National Council of Teachers of English, and a nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media Services. Ghigna has read his poems at the Library of Congress, the John F. Kennedy Center, the American Library in Paris, the American School in Paris, the American International Schools in the Americas, schools in Alaska, and conferences, libraries, book events, and schools throughout the US and overseas. For more information, please visit FatherGoose.com.

Eric Carle was the legendary and bestselling creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and more than seventy other classic books for very young children. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold over sixty million copies and has been translated into more than eighty languages. Eric Carle was honored many times for his work, having received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children’s Literature Legacy Award) from the American Library Association, the NEA Foundation Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education, and many other national and international awards. In 2002, Eric Carle and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts. Eric Carle passed away in 2021, at the age of ninety-one.