Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep and wakes up a butterfly --

A caterpillar learns to be patient while trying to metamorphosize.

Unlike all the other caterpillars Charley sometimes wonders what it would be like to be a fawn or a waterfall, so when the day comes to form her chrysalis, Charley must decide who she will become.

Illustrations and rhyming text follow ten caterpillars as one wriggles up a flower stem, another sails across a garden pool, and one reaches an apple leaf, where something amazing happens.

Katy Duck is disappointed when she is cast as a caterpillar in the Spring dance recital.

"When a caterpillar is called "beautiful" one day, he wonders, what could that mean? No one has the same answer. A bear declares that honeycomb is beautiful, the squirrels find dry leaves are beautiful, and a mole loves his beautiful burrow. All the while, the blackbird disagrees with each answer! Will the caterpillar ever find out what beautiful means?"--

Although she does not know why or how, a small creepy-crawly bug is certain that she must make her way to Mexico.

Toestomper, who is mean, rude, and disgusting, changes his ways after he destroys the home of a bunch of caterpillars and is forced to adopt them.

A rowdy pillow fight among young caterpillars causes the Big Caterpillar to step in and take action.

A beetle courageously sets out in search of his best friend--a caterpillar that arrived out of nowhere and vanished without warning.