Spinderella
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By Julia Donaldson and Sebastien Braun
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386 reviews
A fantastic new picture book all about a football-playing spider, written by Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, with glorious full colour illustrations from the talented Sebastian Braun and a sparkling, glittery foiled cover.
Spinderella the spider has a passion for football! She tries to play a match with her brothers and sisters but she doesn’t know how many spiders should be on each team. Even worse, she can’t count the goals! Luckily for Spinderella, her Hairy Godmother has a plan . . .
Julia Donaldson does it again in this hugely engaging and funny story all about football, spiders and counting – what’s not to love! The perfect picture book for children of all ages – boys and girls alike.
Julia Donaldson is the internationally renowned author of the best-loved picture books in the world, including The Gruffalo, What the Ladybird Heard, Sugarlump and the Unicorn and Night Monkey, Day Monkey. Julia Donaldson’s collaborations with Axel Scheffler have sold millions of copies, and Room on the Broom is now an Academy Award-nominated short film.
Sebastian Braun studied fine and applied arts at Strasbourg University. He moved to London in 2000 and since then has been working exclusively on children’s picture books, having been published by Orchard, Walker, Campbell, HarperCollins and Puffin.
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liked the counting and numbers
I love that they all enjoy playing football
I love this book about counting
I liked the bit where umm that little spider didn't know how to count but then she umm saw people count and she knew how to count then but then all the other times she didn't have it until the very last bit that little spider finally knowed how to count to twenty
I liked it because it was about a spider who wanted numbers for everything and her family didn't really care about numbers, but Spinderella had the courage to find out about numbers for herself.
Julia Donaldson is so good at making books I love them they are so good.
I liked the bit where they wanted football boots but they didn't have any, but the fairy godmother came in a flash and eight boots came sat on the floor and they could play with the pea without hurting their legs
I didn't like this book about spiders
I like it when the Hairy Godmother gives them shoes for the football because they're so cute.
Does he learn to count to 100
I liked the spiders playing football
It was weird that they played with a pea instead of a football.
I think the children in my class will love this book! A modern take on Cinderella, but with spiders, football, a school class and numbers! Sounds odd but it totally works.
This is my favourite book with the spider and football
The book is about a spider who wants to learn to count. I especially liked how they played football with peas and Spinderella could count correctly.
I like that she taught others how to count
I like when all the children count and Spinderella learns the numbers
Like that someone learned how to count numbers. Didn't like that the drawings were too basic
I liked where spinderella was trying to even up the football teams with all the spiders. Spinderella was my favorite character.
I liked it it was interesting , I like the numbers just like Spinderella...
I have this book at home and enjoy to read with my mama
Love it!
Its a great book because its all about spinderella. I love how the story is and her brother and sisters listen to her in the end. I would tell my friends at school to read this book.
It was about a spider learning how to count. It was a good book to read.
I liked the bit where Spinderella found her way back into the dinner hall. I like counting the numbers.
I like the fairy god mother taking Spinderella to the classroom to learn numbers. I loved the book.
I liked Spinderella because she learned about numbers.
I would recommend it to someone else Yes!
I like when she is hanging off the wall with the fairy spider. I thought she might fall
It’s slightly scary but for young people, I recommend this to kids over 6.
I don’t like spiders but this is a funny book