Sorting these covers by decade
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by decade
Eric Carle
30 covers from 77 printings with a known year, 2010s back to 1970s
2010s
12 covers · 9 of 16 printings say hardcover · 11 publishers, Editorial Kókinos and Puffin Books among them · 2 languages
2000s
8 covers · 5 of 15 printings say hardcover · 10 publishers, Editorial Kókinos and Philomel Books among them · 4 languages
1990s
5 covers · 2 of 5 printings say hardcover · 4 publishers, Philomel and Gerstenberg, Hildesh. among them · 2 languages
1980s
3 covers · 3 of 12 printings say hardcover · 9 publishers, Editorial Kókinos and Scholastic among them · 3 languages
1970s
2 covers · 9 of 32 printings say hardcover · 18 publishers, Philomel Books and Philomel among them · 6 languages
Covers from Open Library, each in the decade of the earliest printing that carries it. What the catalogues never scanned is missing here too. See the whole wall.