The World of Eric Carle: The Very Busy Spider : A Lift-the-Flap Book (Other)

from Elizabeth1977

A spider can't be bothered socializing with other animals because he is too busy spinning his web. Children will enjoy reading along to the repetitive phrases. The web grows larger and larger throughout the story. Children can also use the sense of touch to feel the spider web.

from Marymac

My granddaughter loved this book! As a retired Kindergarten Teacher this story is one of the great books for developing reading skills. It has a wonderful pattern and rhythm that the child can pick up and if you point to the words as you read you will help them to develop word recognition!

from lwmasters

A beautifully illustrated book about the life of a spider. It shows the spider spinning a web and also shows lots of different animals and the sounds they make. Would be a great book to explain what and how spiders eat. It also teaches about hard work. The version of the book I read had cool illu...

from pcadig1

This is yet another story of simplicity from the mind of Eric Carle. The illustrations are still amazing and the use of color to delineate the animals is genius. Alas, the only complaint is that the story must end. This would be a great book for parents or teachers to introduce colors to young mi...

from ccampeaux

This book has things you can feel. This book can be used on the children's sense of touch. It is about a spider trying to spin her web but she keeps getting distracted by all the other animals, but she finally gets it done. This is a good book for children because it shows them that even though y...