"When the rain pours down, Itsy Bitsy Spider's water spout becomes a water slide in this nursery rhyme reimagining."
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Spider Stories
Not all spiders are spooky! In these stories, you’ll meet web-weavers who are curious, kind, and full of surprises, showing that even the smallest creatures can do great things.
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- "An art-loving spider learns about the joys and challenges of creativity."
- "Why did Itsy Bitsy make his famous journey? With a dose of warmth and whimsy, Steve Light's remarkable, intricate artwork spins a backstory of unexpected friendship. Itsy Bitsy sits at home, drinking tea, all alone... Everyone knows the rhyme "The…
- "Breaking News: Wishing Well Broken! The townspeople of Bad Göodsburg are up in arms. With their beloved well busted, none of their important, generous, kindhearted wishes are coming true! Time to send that good-for-nothing Newsboy to investigate..."
- "A little girl finds a spider in her bedroom at bedtime."
- "Stanley the spider must make a new start after rain comes and collapses the home he has spun and filled with his collection of seeds, twigs, leaves, and other precious items."
- "In the town of Snohomish, nestled into the shrubs of the riverbank, lives an ordinary writing spider named Alvera. She loves weaving her webs by night and watching the townspeople by day, until things go topsy-turvy. The people begin waving signs…
- "Seaver is an orb spider with a sky full of inspiration. His siblings prefer traditional round webs and aren't afraid to let him know. But Seaver doesn't mind! He loves his new shapes and isn't afraid to stand out."
- "When a lady mistakes him for kitten, big hairy spider Luigi resists her kind advances until tasty breakfasts and getting tucked into bed convince him otherwise, but he soon learns what might be at stake when you pretend to be someone you're not."
- "A picture book about a surreptitious spider who gathers the courage to help the neighbors she has watched over from afar--a promising painter, a proper little lady, a mindful young man, a brave girl and her exceptionally brave tortoise."
- "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."
- "Follows a spider as it collects items to decorate its web from a landscape filled with insects, leaves, flowers, feathers, and seeds, all labeled for identification."
- "Presents an adaptation of the "Itsy Bitsy Spider," in which Pete and his friends know just how to help the spider succeed."
- "A little boy and a tickly spider discover the joy of sharing the outside world."
- "Frank loves making beautiful webs, scaring humans, running, and scurrying but after waking up one morning missing a leg, he wonders if he still is a spider."
- "A young spider named Walter tries to weave a very sturdy web. Can you pick out the different shapes that are formed while he is working?"
- "Tired of being called "Itzy Bitzy," Itzy tries to catch his own lunch on the first day of spindergarten to prove he is a big spider, but a girl sitting on a tuffet, a dangerous waterspout, and other nursery rhyme characters get in his way."
- "Although Harry the red spider mite is "smaller than the head of a pin," he imagines big adventures."
- "A young spider discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being a spider, including how to spin webs and avoid vacuum cleaners."
- "Sophie the spider makes wondrous webs, but the residents of Beekman's Boarding House do not appreciate her until at last, old and tired, she weaves her final masterpiece."
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