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Spinderella

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Spinderella by Julia Donaldson and Sebastien Braun

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By Julia Donaldson and Sebastien Braun

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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.

Reviews

29 Aug 2026

liked the counting and numbers

27 Aug 2026

I love that they all enjoy playing football

27 Aug 2026

I love this book about counting

11 Aug 2026

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

10 Aug 2026

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.

31 Jul 2026

Julia Donaldson is so good at making books I love them they are so good.

23 Jul 2026

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

23 Jul 2026

I didn't like this book about spiders

20 Jul 2026

I like it when the Hairy Godmother gives them shoes for the football because they're so cute.

15 Jul 2026

Does he learn to count to 100

13 Jul 2026

I liked the spiders playing football

10 Jul 2026

It was weird that they played with a pea instead of a football.

11 Oct 2025

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.

02 Sep 2025

This is my favourite book with the spider and football

24 Aug 2025

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.

23 Aug 2025

I like that she taught others how to count

11 Aug 2025

I like when all the children count and Spinderella learns the numbers

09 Aug 2025

Like that someone learned how to count numbers. Didn't like that the drawings were too basic

31 Jul 2025

I liked where spinderella was trying to even up the football teams with all the spiders. Spinderella was my favorite character.

27 Jul 2025

I liked it it was interesting , I like the numbers just like Spinderella...

25 Jul 2025

I have this book at home and enjoy to read with my mama

24 Jul 2025

Love it!

23 Jul 2025

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.

21 Jul 2025

It was about a spider learning how to count. It was a good book to read.

19 Jul 2025

I liked the bit where Spinderella found her way back into the dinner hall. I like counting the numbers.

19 Jul 2025

I like the fairy god mother taking Spinderella to the classroom to learn numbers. I loved the book.

17 Jul 2025

I liked Spinderella because she learned about numbers.

I would recommend it to someone else Yes!

06 Jul 2025

I like when she is hanging off the wall with the fairy spider. I thought she might fall

05 Jan 2025

It’s slightly scary but for young people, I recommend this to kids over 6.

10 Sep 2024

I don’t like spiders but this is a funny book

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