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Miss Spider's Tea Party invites children 3 to 7 years old to enter David Kirk's world of color and wonder. Eight games provide hours of fun with a healthy serving of age-appropriate basic skills practice. Miss Spider's friends want to attend her party, but they each have a problem that needs to be resolved. It's up to the child to play the games and help all the friends make it to the party.

When the child succeeds at all eight games, Miss Spider thanks the player warmly with a sweet invitation of their own -- something to print and cherish. Each game has an easy, medium and difficult level to challenge all of Miss Spider's fans. With lots of beautiful 3D images and animation, the CD-ROM ...

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Overview

Miss Spider's Tea Party invites children 3 to 7 years old to enter David Kirk's world of color and wonder. Eight games provide hours of fun with a healthy serving of age-appropriate basic skills practice. Miss Spider's friends want to attend her party, but they each have a problem that needs to be resolved. It's up to the child to play the games and help all the friends make it to the party.

When the child succeeds at all eight games, Miss Spider thanks the player warmly with a sweet invitation of their own -- something to print and cherish. Each game has an easy, medium and difficult level to challenge all of Miss Spider's fans. With lots of beautiful 3D images and animation, the CD-ROM captures the unique look and feel of the book and will surely broaden and enhance your child's relationship with Miss Spider and her friends.

The Beetles River Cross Game

The Beetles want to attend Miss Spider's party, but they have a wide river to cross. Can you help them get from shore toshore? It's fun -- just jump from rock to leaf to tadpole to branch. But don't fall in the water or you'll have to start over!

The Crickets Band Game

The Crickets want to attend Miss Spider's party, but they need to form a band. Can you match each musical sound with its instrument? Match the whole band and they'll play you a wonderful tune!

The Bee Flower Matching Game

The Bees want to attend Miss Spider's party, but they have to pollinate flowers. Each Bee has a flower in mind. Can you choose the ones they're thinking of so they can finish up and head to the party?

The Hiding Butterfly Game

The Butterflies want to attend Miss Spider's party, but they must findall their friends. The colorful Butterflies are cleverly hiding in several scenes. Can you find them all so they can come to the party?

When lonely Miss Spider tries to host a tea party, the other bugs refuse to come for fear of being eaten!

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
What's a sociable spider to do when no one will accept her invitations to tea? Seemingly unaware of her own predatory reputation, the eponymous arachnid is perplexed and saddened when a parade of potential guests scuttles, scampers and scurries away ``in mortal dread.'' A timely rainstorm provides the perfect opportunity for Miss Spider to prove her good intentions, however, as she lovingly nurtures a rain-soaked moth with sweets and warm brew. Good news travels quickly, and before long her web is abuzz with a full-scale tea party. ``Her friends were glad to watch her feast / Upon the floral centerpiece. / It was a great relief to see / She ate just flowers and drank just tea.'' First-time author Kirk's rhyming text, with its singsong rhythm and counting motif (two beetles are followed by three fireflies, then four bumblebees, etc.), is slack and predictable, but his illustrations are thoroughly original. The stylized paintings are flecked with a shimmery light that accentuates the bold, often garish, juxtaposition of colors and increases the whimsy of the appropriately bug-eyed cast. All ages. (Apr.)
Children's Literature
Miss Spider is such a delight, and this is a book that is sturdy enough for younger children to handle and love. Counting from 1 to 12, the tale of the insects' reluctance to come to Miss Spider's Tea Party is told. When she proves herself a friend, the insects come back to play. The artwork is wonderful, bright and whimsical. The insects are imaginative and expressive. The palette demands attention.
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School Library Journal
Gr 1-3-Ingenuous Miss Spider can't understand why insects flee in panic at her approach. Being a florivore herself, she only wants to invite them over for cakes and tea. The ironic air wafting through Kirk's rhymed tale will not be lost on young readers, and the insects in the big, brightly colored illustrations bear comically apprehensive expressions as they hastily depart. Miss Spider is depicted as a freckled, green-eyed beauty with a bulbous black-and-gold body; she and her would-be guests are seen in a slightly softened focus that sometimes sharpens to a glossy solidity reminiscent of William Joyce's figures. At last, Miss Spider is able to convince a rain-soaked moth of her good intentions, and, ``Before too long our hostess knew/Each bug who crawled or hopped or flew/And all their lovely children too.'' A sweet tale-pair it with Mary Ann Hoberman's Bugs (Viking, 1976; o.p.).-John Peters, New York Public Library
Ilene Cooper
Miss Spider eagerly waits for some guests to join her at tea, but because spiders are in the habit of eating their company, no one wants to join her. Espying her web, the fireflies hightail it, the ants ignore her, the beetles dash away. Nine moths, waiting out a thundershower, prefer to get wet. But one little moth is too soaked to take wing. A guest at last! Miss Spider wines him and dines him, and then, instead of dining on him, she sends him on his way, at the same time paving the way for lots of new friends to trust her hospitality. As far as the story goes, there's one fly in the ointment. If young kids don't know that spiders catch other insects in their web to eat them, they won't know why Miss Spider is shunned, especially since she seems so nice. It's easy to forgive flaws in the story (a prosaic rhyming text) because of the fabulous art. Featuring the clarity that comes with airbrushing, these in-your-face pictures are full of eye-popping colors and almost 3-D shapes. Kirk takes artistic license and introduces spiders that are yellow, bugs that are blue, and ants the color of maraschino cherries. This would be a fun one to read to groups.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780590477246
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/1/1994
  • Pages: 31
  • Sales rank: 201,168
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Lexile: 810L (what's this?)
  • Series: Miss Spider Series
  • Product dimensions: 12.08 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 0.43 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2010

    Little girl loved this

    My little girl, age 6, loved this story.

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  • Posted February 10, 2009

    Wonderful book for a child's collection

    The rythmic poetry of the book captures both adult and child. Excellent illustrations in bright, creative tones. Have bought this book for other family's.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2004

    Loved It!

    I read this in the book store to my 4 year old granddaughter. She was captivated. This is a book, that will surely teach little ones the love of reading. It is a 5 star!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 29, 2004

    Neat Book!

    My first grade teacher read this to me and now I'm in ninth grade and still love it! The illustrations are excellent!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 19, 2003

    I enjoy all of the Miss Spider's Books!!

    I was recently hired to read at a little girl's birthday party. The mom of the birthday girl had asked me to read 'Miss Spider's Tea Party' to the children in attendance. Since the children were all under the age of 5, I wasn't sure it would hold their attention. But they all listened intently! Since then, I have not only added this book to my library, but all of the 'Little Miss Spider' books as well!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 3, 2001

    Awesome

    My children and I just recently finished up our summer reading program through our local library. The experience was wonderful for all three of us. My kids are 5 and 3 and have developed a true love for books. One of their favorites was Miss Spider's Tea Party. My children felt for Miss Spider when the other bugs were afraid to come to her tea party. They were all afraid because of who or really what she was. But when one of the other bugs saw her for who she really was made it my kids happy. It helped them to understand that what we see on the outside isn't always what is in the inside. Therefore, we should give everyone a chance to be close to us. The illustrations were so amazing we just got lost in them. My daughter loved it because she loves tea party's and she thought that Miss Spider was very beautiful. This is a wonderful book, thank you...

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    Posted November 17, 2009

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