The very hungry caterpillar displays its love for the reader as the cherry on a cake, the apple of an eye, and the bee's knees.

A very quiet cricket who wants to rub his wings together and make a sound as do so many other animals finally achieves his wish. The cricket's sound is reproduced at the end of the book.

A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be itself. Cutouts along the edges of the pages display various animals and colors.

Guests at Little Frog's birthday party include the red fox, the purple butterfly, the orange cat, and other colorful animals. The illustrations are designed to demonstrate the concept of complementary colors.

Half-page flaps enable the reader to mix and match shapes with objects of the same size.

Objects and colors, each on half pages, can be matched up.

Upper and lower halves of divided pages can be turned separately, to match words with pictures.

Includes the classic children's story that teaches youngsters to count and features four other stories by Eric Carle.