The very busy spider

The very busy spider

Eric Carle

Book - 1984

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.

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Subjects
Toy and movable books > Juvenile fiction.
Spiders > Juvenile fiction.
Spider webs > Juvenile fiction.
Domestic animals > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Genres
Picture books
Published
New York : Philomel Books [1984]
Language
English
Main Author
Eric Carle (-)
Physical Description
unpaged : illustrations
ISBN
9780399211669
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Review by Booklist Review

Ages 3-5. Handsome and inventive illustrations tell a disarmingly simple story of a spider who diligently spins her web. Raised lines, for the spider's web, enables blind as well as sighted children to enjoy the story.

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Mice, a rottweiler, an arachnid and a few other assorted critters make sturdy reappearances in five board book versions of picture books. In Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint, ``three white mice on a white piece of paper" enjoy a colorful romp, while in Walsh's Mouse Count a similar gaggle narrowly escapes being served for dinner (Harcourt/Red Wagon, $6 each, 28p, ages 1-3 ISBN 0-15-200265-0; -200266-9 Sept.). Yet another mouse searches the animal kingdom for companionship‘and finds an unexpected respondent‘in Eric Carle's Do You Want to Be My Friend? (HarperFestival, $6.95, 32p, ages 2-6, ISBN 0-694-00709-9 Sept.). The rewards of industriousness are celebrated in a second Carle title, The Very Busy Spider; its embossed web brings a tactile dimension to his familiar collage artwork (Philomel, $9.95, 26p, ages 2-up ISBN 0-399-22919-1 Aug.). Finally, the canine in question is Alexandra Day's beloved Carl, who takes charge of a crew of toddlers in Carl Goes to Day Care (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $5.95, ages 1-3 ISBN 0-374-31145-5 Sept.). (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Horn Book Review

Carle's ingenious picture book featuring a spider who is too busy spinning her web to play with a variety of animals has been beautifully transformed into a smaller-format board book. The collages are as striking as ever, the repetitive phrases and onomatopoeic sounds as appealing, and the tactile experience of the growing web as rewarding. This is a worthy new edition of a classic book. From HORN BOOK 1995, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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