The story details a little caterpillar who goes about eating various foods over the course of a week. Beyond teaching the life cycle of the butterfly, you can also use it to teach the days of the week, counting from 1-5, and a range of food vocabulary. The re-readability is high, and I'd highly recommend the book in its bilingual form, or simply in English.
Personally, I learned a lot of food vocabulary, including ciruelas and bizcocho de chocolate.
Mija appears to enjoy the book, although, being only 8 weeks old at this point, it's a little hard to tell how she'll feel about it in a year. It's modestly priced online at around $9 at Amazon and available for free in your local public library.
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I love, love, love reading this book to kids who are learning languages, for all the reasons you mention! We even had a VHC-themed birthday party for Gwyneth last year:
http://www.pinterest.com/babybilingual/very-hungry-caterpillar-party/
Here's a post from a few years ago that reinforces what you're doing with your daughter, with a link to a good article on board books:
http://babybilingual.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-can-read-to-babies.html?showComment=1392115986866#c8374600152201693091
Thanks for the links Sarah, and I'm glad to see this is a book someone else has used!
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