Diary Of A Spider

by Doreen Cronin Narrated by Angus T. Jones

Overview

This is the diary of a spider who's a lot like you! He goes to school, but he also spins sticky webs and takes wind-catching lessons.

Editorial Reviews

If you enjoyed Diary of a Worm, this book by the same creative team will give you shivers of joy. The diminutive, eight-legged protagonist is incapable of scaring anybody; he's too busy spinning sticky webs, scaling walls, and taking wind-catching lessons. But this itsy-bitsy spider has a very big heart: He's even befriended a neighborhood fly! A hilarious, charming story by a perfectly matched team.

Kirkus Reviews

The wriggly narrator of Diary of a Worm (2003) puts in occasional appearances, but it's his arachnid buddy who takes center stage here, with terse, tongue-in-cheek comments on his likes (his close friend Fly, Charlotte's Web), his dislikes (vacuums, people with big feet), nervous encounters with a huge Daddy Longlegs, his extended family-which includes a Grandpa more than willing to share hard-won wisdom (The secret to a long, happy life: "Never fall asleep in a shoe.")-and mishaps both at spider school and on the human playground. Bliss endows his garden-dwellers with faces and the odd hat or other accessory, and creates cozy webs or burrows colorfully decorated with corks, scraps, plastic toys and other human detritus. Spider closes with the notion that we could all get along, "just like me and Fly," if we but got to know one another. Once again, brilliantly hilarious. (Picture book. 6-8)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172317668
Publisher:	Weston Woods
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

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