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The Very Busy Spider

By: Eric Carle
Binding: Board book
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 0241135907
ISBN-13: 9780241135907
Released: 26 Sep 1996
RRP: £5.99
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Great for practising animal noises - By: L Spark, 30 Apr 2008
My son loves naming & doing each animal noise as we read the story. He also loves the spider & feeling the web that it spins, as well as the buzzing fly. Beautifully illustrated.
Beautiful Book - By: , 15 Oct 2005
My 9 month old son has just discovered this & absolutely loves it. We have been reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar but he much prefers this (and I much prefer reading it to him). The text is very simple but not boring to read as there are different animal sounds on each page & a gentle twist at the end when the owl comes at night & the spider has falllen fast asleep. It is just the right length for him at this age as it holds his attention right to the end.
Beautifully illustrated simple book - By: , 18 Jan 2001
I read this story to my 8 month old little girl & it is now her favourite. The animals are beautifully illustrated & the story is short enough to keep her attention. The tactile feel of the web means that she gets involved with the reading of the story. We alll love it, espicallly as it keeps the tears away at cranky times of the day. Thank you Eric!!
Gorgeous. Simple. Easy to enjoy time and time again. - By: , 08 Dec 1999
Farmyard animals & an easy pattern from one double page to the next. The fly is there to pick out on each page until it is caught in the spider's web. No avoiding the truth then.

The other day I took an unharried moment to look at that fly caught in the web. I'm spooked by its little face - those could be two human eyes & a human nose. Its little features remind me of the original version of the film 'The Fly.' This haunts me now, when the gnat-like thing with a man's head is caught in a web & cries out "help me, help me" in a high pitched squeak that is inaudible to the men sitting on a garden bench near-by. A spider scuttles over to feast on him. This observation is NOT something I'm about to share with the little ones, though should we scrutinise the illustration at some time one of them will make this observation.

Meanwhile we enjoy it, letting TBT (18 months) introduce the appropriate animal noise as each page is turned. As he familiarises himself with the pictures we encourage him to point at noses, ears & tails. Until recently he'd just say, 'thair' & point. Now he makes hesitant burblings which sound like 'owse,' & 'eeze.' Buy one now. Loved as much by boys as girls.