![]() ![]() They eat and eat and eat, then pile flowers in a heap and crawl in to sleep. Taken with this process, Horace and Hattie decide to try it themselves. The “wriggly, stripy thing” starts to eat, and it eats and eats and eats and gets bigger, until one day “it made a soft, silky bed, and there it slept for many days and many nights.” The two then spy the cocoon opening “something beautiful, colorful, and wonderful” crawls out and then flutters away. They are lucky enough to witness the caterpillar hatching from this egg (“egg,” “caterpillar,” “chrysalis,” “butterfly,” and “metamorphosis” are never used in the text). One day, the two find something “small and shiny and smooth” under a leaf. Hedgehog best friends Horace and Hattie are back, this time marveling at the wonder that is metamorphosis.Īs in their first outing, this book begins by introducing the two friends, sharing what they like to do together as well as apart. ![]()
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