The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Quality:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - 1969 book by Eric Carle. This book is the 900^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 596^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Slovenian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 596^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 900^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 636 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is on the 596^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 900^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 174 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #824 in November 2013
• Global: #7030 in March 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #20437 in June 2016
• Global: #2311 in March 2009

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Slovenian (sl) Zelo lačna gosenica		70.0086
2	English (en) The Very Hungry Caterpillar		64.2362
3	Chinese (zh) 好餓的毛毛蟲		50.4213
4	Turkish (tr) Aç Tırtıl		30.5965
5	Armenian (hy) Շատ քաղցած թրթուրը		29.3454
6	Russian (ru) Очень голодная гусеница		29.0692
7	German (de) Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt		28.9901
8	Japanese (ja) はらぺこあおむし		28.25
9	Italian (it) Il piccolo Bruco Maisazio		27.4914
10	Swedish (sv) Den mycket hungriga larven		24.7134

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Very Hungry Caterpillar		3 965 211
2	German (de) Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt		744 133
3	Japanese (ja) はらぺこあおむし		730 622
4	Dutch (nl) Rupsje Nooitgenoeg		183 516
5	Russian (ru) Очень голодная гусеница		103 180
6	Chinese (zh) 好餓的毛毛蟲		41 280
7	Hebrew (he) הזחל הרעב		34 857
8	French (fr) La Chenille qui fait des trous		27 852
9	Spanish (es) La Pequeña Oruga Glotona		27 541
10	Italian (it) Il piccolo Bruco Maisazio		19 922

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Very Hungry Caterpillar		21 388
2	Japanese (ja) はらぺこあおむし		4 588
3	German (de) Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt		3 106
4	Chinese (zh) 好餓的毛毛蟲		892
5	Dutch (nl) Rupsje Nooitgenoeg		794
6	Spanish (es) La Pequeña Oruga Glotona		499
7	Russian (ru) Очень голодная гусеница		448
8	Hebrew (he) הזחל הרעב		444
9	Italian (it) Il piccolo Bruco Maisazio		341
10	French (fr) La Chenille qui fait des trous		246

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Very Hungry Caterpillar		371
2	German (de) Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt		86
3	Japanese (ja) はらぺこあおむし		34
4	Dutch (nl) Rupsje Nooitgenoeg		33
5	Hebrew (he) הזחל הרעב		23
6	Russian (ru) Очень голодная гусеница		15
7	Spanish (es) La Pequeña Oruga Glotona		12
8	Simple English (simple) The Very Hungry Caterpillar		12
9	Italian (it) Il piccolo Bruco Maisazio		11
10	Turkish (tr) Aç Tırtıl		11

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Very Hungry Caterpillar		2
2	Czech (cs) Tuze hladová housenka		1
3	German (de) Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt		1
4	Dutch (nl) Rupsje Nooitgenoeg		1
5	Esperanto (eo) La tre malsata raŭpo		0
6	Spanish (es) La Pequeña Oruga Glotona		0
7	French (fr) La Chenille qui fait des trous		0
8	Hebrew (he) הזחל הרעב		0
9	Armenian (hy) Շատ քաղցած թրթուրը		0
10	Italian (it) Il piccolo Bruco Maisazio		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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