The Caterpillar

The Caterpillar A magazine for children (aged 7-11) featuring poetry, stories and art. Features the likes of Michael It is printed in an unpronouncable place in Wales.

The Caterpillar is the younger sibling of The Moth, an international arts and literature magazine for grown-ups. The Caterpillar features poetry, stories and art for kids between the ages of 7 and 11(ish). It appears four times a year ‒ in March, June, September and December. John Hegley chose The Caterpillar as one of his 'top ten children's poetry books' in The Guardian - and it's not even a boo

k, or a poetry book for that matter! - sharing the limelight with the likes of Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Rosen and Jacqueline Wilson. It includes some GREAT writing by the likes of Michael Morpurgo, Meshack Asare, Julie O'Callaghan, Dennis Lee (who penned 'Fraggle Rock'), Frank Cottrell Boyce, Mo O'Hara, John Hegley, Ian Whybrow, Mark Lowery, Hilda Offen and Janet Wong (she's read her poems on the Oprah Winfrey Show!). The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is a new annual prize of €1,000 for the best poem written by an adult for children. You can find details of how to enter at www.thecaterpillarprize.com. The magazine is edited by Rebecca O'Connor in her children's former playroom. A one-year subscription (€20) or a single copy (€5) can be ordered at www.thecaterpillarmagazine.com.

A frosty fairytale painting from The Caterpillar Archives – by Cuban-American artist Enrique Martínez Celaya and origina...
23/11/2025

A frosty fairytale painting from The Caterpillar Archives – by Cuban-American artist Enrique Martínez Celaya and originally from Issue 25! 🌨

Want to get ahead on Christmas gift shopping? Try these brilliant and affordable gift bundles of The Caterpillar – five ...
20/11/2025

Want to get ahead on Christmas gift shopping?

Try these brilliant and affordable gift bundles of The Caterpillar – five issues for as little as €20!

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❛ A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place whe...
14/11/2025

❛ A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

Pippi Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren, born in 1907.

❛ All my paintings are the outcome of quaint and beautiful things I have seen at tucking up time... It is then that I se...
05/11/2025

❛ All my paintings are the outcome of quaint and beautiful things I have seen at tucking up time... It is then that I see deep into their little minds, and I am grateful for having the receptiveness of brain to retain the dainty secrets I have seen.

Mabel Lucie Attwell, who died in 1964.

Happy Halloween witches, warlocks and vampires! Here's some spookily good artwork by Janet Hill from Issue 34 of The Cat...
31/10/2025

Happy Halloween witches, warlocks and vampires!

Here's some spookily good artwork by Janet Hill from Issue 34 of The Caterpillar. 🎃

28/10/2025

A little something to get you in the mood for Halloween! 🎃👻 Our very own Will Govan reading an excerpt from Ronald Dahl's The Witches. 🧹🪄

We've got plenty of tricks and treats in our archives – like this spooky selection from Doug Cushman, from Issue 30. 👻 b...
27/10/2025

We've got plenty of tricks and treats in our archives – like this spooky selection from Doug Cushman, from Issue 30.

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Quick! Before October is over for another year, we wondered if anyone has a favorite Autumn poem to celebrate the season...
22/10/2025

Quick! Before October is over for another year, we wondered if anyone has a favorite Autumn poem to celebrate the season? 🍂

Here's a classic from Robert Louis Stevenson, to kick things off...

As Halloween draws near, don't forget that sometimes monsters get lonely too.Just like in this poem by Myles McLeod, fro...
15/10/2025

As Halloween draws near, don't forget that sometimes monsters get lonely too.

Just like in this poem by Myles McLeod, from Issue 23...

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Swimming into the weekend – and all the adventures it will hold... 🐻‍❄ 'Dark Waters', from The Caterpillar Archives by S...
10/10/2025

Swimming into the weekend – and all the adventures it will hold...

🐻‍❄ 'Dark Waters', from The Caterpillar Archives by Scottish artist Lucy Campbell

❛ Writing is to put love into the world.'Harriet the Spy' author Louise Fitzhugh, born in 1928.
05/10/2025

❛ Writing is to put love into the world.

'Harriet the Spy' author Louise Fitzhugh, born in 1928.

Hello October! Something brilliant and slightly spooky to welcome in the season, from Issue 17 of The Caterpillar – a fa...
01/10/2025

Hello October! Something brilliant and slightly spooky to welcome in the season, from Issue 17 of The Caterpillar – a fairytale collage by Kimberly Karr-Wlassak. 🌛

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