From the awarding winning duo, Eileen Spinelli and Jane Dyer, who created the bestselling picture book 'When Mama Comes Home Tonight', comes a charming and bittersweet tale of an exceptionally gifted spider and the lengths she's willing to go to share her gifts with those around her. Sophie is no ordinary house spider. She's an artist and takes great pride in her work. Every web she spins is more wonderous than the one before. But the guests at Beekman's Boardinghouse don't like spiders. Everywhere Sophie goes guests scream and shoo her away. No one there wants anything to do with Sophie and her magnificent creations - no one except the young woman up on the third floor who is busy 'weaving' something herself; and when she runs out of yarn, Sophie knows that the time has finally come to create the masterpiece of a lifetime.

 

 

There are 32 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2002 by Simon & Schuster .

Eileen Spinelli is the author of "Thanksgiving at the Tappletons, "illustrated by Maryann Cocca-Leffler and "Boy, Can He Dance! "illustrated by Paul Yalowitz. She writes poems in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where she lives wi" Jane Dyer is the acclaimed illustrator of her own anthology, Animal Crackers, as well as the bestselling picture book I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose Lewis. Jane Dyer lives in western Massachusetts and paints her extraordinary watercolors in a beautiful sun-drenched studio.