The Adventures of Catarina: The Caterpillar

Being beautiful is all about feeling beautiful.

Little Catarina is a sweet caterpillar with one tiny little flaw: She has no reflection. She can’t help it. This is how she was born.

Being different comes with some difficulties. Although her classmates at CaterSchool call her names sometimes and make her feel like she doesn’t fit in, no one finds her missing reflection a bigger problem than Catarina herself.

She just wishes she could see what she really looks like, what her family and friends see when they look at her…

But what if she isn’t beautiful? What if her reflection is disappointing? How will she ever show her face again in the Butterfly Kingdom?

Join Catarina as she goes on a journey of self-doubt, kindness, and self-discovery and finds out what really makes her beautiful: her big, tender heart.

Chantal O’Brien is a children’s author who lives in London with her dog, Pixie. Her new book, The Adventures of Catarina: The Caterpillar, is the story of a young caterpillar who doesn’t have a reflection. She embarks on a journey, which teaches her that it’s the beauty within that is most important. In her free time Chantal enjoys reading, drawing, going to the cinema and traveling. She also supports a few charities and has an ambition to inspire children to understand that being different is wonderful and to embrace their beauty within, while living life to the fullest.