Noa Kelner

Feb 13, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Rebecca Gardyn Levington |Noa Kelner |Eric Carle |Drew Daywalt

Safe to creep on by. In three sentences that stretch out over most of the book’s 32 pages, the (here, at least) not-so-ravenous larva first describes the object of its love, then describes how that loved one makes it feel before concluding, “That’s why… / I[heart]U.” There is little original in either visual or textual content, much of it mined from The Very Hungry Caterpillar.