Miss Spider's Tea Party - Hardcover

Kirk, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0590477242 ISBN 13: 9780590477246

Publisher: Scholastic Press, 1994

Synopsis

Wary insects do not dare stop by Miss Spider's for tea, but when a wayward moth falls into one of Miss Spider's cups, she graciously rescues it and soon finds herself surrounded by new friends.

About this title

About the Author:

Kirk has studied painting for more than twenty years, starting in junior high school. A graduate of the Cleveland Art Institute, his bold palette and unique style are influenced by everything from nineteenth century academic painting to 1930s animation. Mr. Kirk lives in upstate New York with his wife, Kathy, and his daughters, Violet, Primrose, and Wisteria.

From Booklist:

Ages 4-8. Miss Spider eagerly waits for some guests to join her at tea, but because spiders are in the habit of eating their company, no one wants to join her. Espying her web, the fireflies hightail it, the ants ignore her, the beetles dash away. Nine moths, waiting out a thundershower, prefer to get wet. But one little moth is too soaked to take wing. A guest at last! Miss Spider wines him and dines him, and then, instead of dining on him, she sends him on his way, at the same time paving the way for lots of new friends to trust her hospitality. As far as the story goes, there's one fly in the ointment. If young kids don't know that spiders catch other insects in their web to eat them, they won't know why Miss Spider is shunned, especially since she seems so nice. It's easy to forgive flaws in the story (a prosaic rhyming text) because of the fabulous art. Featuring the clarity that comes with airbrushing, these in-your-face pictures are full of eye-popping colors and almost 3-D shapes. Kirk takes artistic license and introduces spiders that are yellow, bugs that are blue, and ants the color of maraschino cherries. This would be a fun one to read to groups. Ilene Cooper

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0590477242
• ISBN 13: 9780590477246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32