Spider's Lunch: All About Garden Spiders

by Joanna Cole

Book Overview

For use in schools and libraries only. An introduction to the arachnid world explains how a hungry garden spider must obtain food by carefully building a web and then patiently waiting to catch... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0448402238
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Little Book

This little book has beautiful illustrations and simple, descriptive text that makes it interesting and fun to read. Although intended as an early reader, my four year old LOVES this book, and I have read it over and over to him. A few days before we found it, we watched a real spider catch a fly in a web, which really made the book come alive for him. In this book, a spider builds a web, catches a fly for her lunch and catches a wasp and releases it. A male spider taps on her web, and we are told that the spiders mate. Later, the spider lays her eggs, and we are told that she will soon die. At the end, her eggs hatch, and the wind carries the tiny babies off to build webs of their own. Not only do children learn about spiders with this book, but they also are presented with the concept that life is a natural cycle. This book would be perfect for first graders who are doing a unit on spiders, or for families who are observing spiders at home.