The Little Caterpillar

By Darina Allen

Once upon a time there was a
beautiful butterfly queen…

And she flew over the ocean to
reach the Milkweed Palace…

Once she got there she
landed upon a single milkweed
leaf and laid five eggs…

Then she flew back over the
ocean and was never seen
again…

The five eggs started to
hatch…

But only four of the eggs
hatched…

One of the caterpillars
tried to eat the egg, but as
he held it up to his mouth,
it started to hatch…

And egg cracked open, but
there was no caterpillar
inside…

Wait a minute… Yes there is!
The tinniest of all tiny
caterpillars crawled out of the
egg…

The other caterpillars looked
at him and laughed…

Hahahahaha
hahahahaha!

And that made the little
caterpillar very upset…

So he started to eat…

And eat…

And eat some more…

Until he was bigger than all
the other caterpillars
combined…

Then giant caterpillar formed into a
chrysalis right in front of his
siblings to make them jealous…

And he hatched as the others
were forming into their
chrysalises…

Once they all hatched, they
realized that they all looked the
same…

And there was no reason why
they should continue bickering,
so instead they became
friends and flew over the
ocean happily. The End.