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The Very Busy Spider
(16 reviews with an average rating of 5 out of 5)
Publisher: Puffin
One morning in a farmyard a spider begins to spin a web. All the animals try to persuade her to stop her spinning and go for a ride, a run or a roll in the mud. Spider doesn't answer any of them; she is too busy spinning her web.
Eventually the web is finished and spider catches a fly... just like that! Soon it is night time and owl asks, 'Who built this beautiful web?' But spider still doesn't answer, because she has fallen asleep after her busy day.
Children will enjoy making the noises of the farm animals, remembering what they want to do and joining in with the repetition. They can feel the spider's web growing on the page with their fingers.
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What you thought...
Average rating:
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Ellie, 25 March 2020
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Superb book with simple yet rich content that cleverly encourages learning of animal words and noises. Good for developing attention span - lots of beautifully illustrated pages which retained our under 1's interest early on.
Little Owls, 17 December 2016
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My 3-year-old loves "reading" this book to us. He's heard it so many times, he tells us what's happening on each page from memory and he's so proud of himself each time he does it, it's as if it's the first time.
Leonosaurus, 26 June 2016
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The illustrations are lovely as usual from Eric Carle, and the raised spider web adds interest. My son loves making the animal noises all through the book.
Quizny, 22 February 2016
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love the book and we then made a spider web with wool when her friend came over.
Donna, 08 June 2015
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A brilliant book watch out for the fly
sherlali, 19 April 2015
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We love reading this book together. My daughter loves all the animals and we do different voices for them to go with their sounds. She also likes that the spiders web is raised so she can feel it.
LJLane1118, 09 February 2015
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This is one of my daughters favourites, it's always one of the ones in her pile books to take to her reading tent.
LJLane1118, 06 February 2015
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We read this book almost every night as my LO giggled when I make the animal noises and use different voices when the animals 'speak'. A great book with lovely illustrations'
Mrs Honey, 27 January 2015
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One of the first books I shared with my little girl at about 4 weeks old. She listened to me tell the story and let me help her feel the spider webs. I love the hungry caterpillar but hadn't read this story - love it!
Bump2014, 07 January 2015
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This is one of my sons favourites - for some reason he loves to stroke the spider pictures
Diddle, 27 February 2014
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I set up this book beside my son's change mat. He's 4 months old and loves staring at the pictures while I change him and read the story. The cow and rooster are his favourites!
OTMum, 20 May 2013
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loved the texture of the pictures
millymooo, 02 April 2013
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Gave it to a local nursery.
Georgieboy, 21 September 2012
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we loved the way the busy spider weaved her web without interruption and its touchy feely texture added to our enjoyment
Baby bear Murphy, 20 July 2012
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My daughter loves this book - all the different animal sounds. It also has the web and threads raised on each page so it is a good book to feel as well. A very popular book in our house.
victoriajacks25, 06 November 2011
It’s a great book got it when I was in New York when I was 3 love it sooo much my all time favourite book!