‘One Hungry Spider’ is a counting book.
It also
informs young readers of a day in the life of an
orbweb spider.
The reader is taken from numbers 1 – 10 by means of
the spider who has close encounters with his prey and
his predators.
‘One Hungry Spider’,
(1)
spun a web between two branches. (2)
Three birds flew close by.
The spider kept still
She did not want them to see her. (3)
…and so it continues…
Number 10 has ten noisy flies buzzing along, many of
whom are caught, giving the spider a feast.
The story concludes with the spider’s
web being torn
and broken …
‘so the spider pulled it down
and ate it.
The hungry spider is building a new web’.
ISBN –Paperback: 0-86896-670-3
