Part of the “Crabtree Connections” series, this title is categorized as a recount book and it introduces the life cycle of a caterpillar as it grows from a tiny egg into a beautiful butterfly or moth. Told in the first person, a caterpillar relates her life story. It begins as an egg and when the caterpillar hatches from the egg, she is hungry and eats the egg and then starts munching on the leaf where she was born. Also as she grows bigger, she molts or loses a tight skin. During this process and while munching on leaves caterpillars are in danger of being eaten by birds.