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The Very Busy Spider (1984)

by Eric Carle

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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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Reading level k-2
Awards
Child Study Association’ s Books of the Year
Best Books for Children, R.R. Bower Co.
ALA Notable Children’s Book
Recommended by the Library of Congress Advisory Committee on the Selection of Children’s
  jayceyrr | Apr 25, 2024 |
Cute little book about working hard on a project and teaches about the sounds different animals make. Ms and Mx indifferent about this book.
  Mx2018 | Feb 4, 2024 |
Independent Reading Level: Grade Levels 1-2
  drake.browning.vsu | Dec 7, 2023 |
AR: 1.3
  ASSG.Library | Nov 21, 2023 |
Genre
Classics
Picture books for children
Textured books
Illustration
Big and bold
Colorful
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Busyness
Farm animals
Farms
Persistence
Spider webs
Spiders
  kmgerbig | May 11, 2023 |
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“Eric Carle’s The Very Busy Spider is now available in board-book form. A contemporary classic, the simple picture storybook is about the satisfaction of working and completing a task. Readers follow a spider through the day as it creates a web. The web is actually a raised line of thin plastic that can be felt when tracing it with a finger. Carle’s signature collage illustrations, in vivid colors and varied textures, carry the story.”
 
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Early one morning the wind blew a spider across the field. A thin, silky thread trailed from her body. The spider landed on a fence post near a farm yard… and began to spin a web with her silky thread.
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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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A spider, blown by the wind to a fence post near a farm yard, begins to build her web and cannot be distracted from the task at hand--not by the horse, cow, sheep, goat, or dog. But when the rooster asks if she wants to catch a pesky fly, the busy spider is able to catch it in her web immediately!
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