Miss Spider's Wedding
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Illustrator: David KirkEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-09-01
ISBN: 0590568663
Number of pages: 40
Publisher: Scholastic Press
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Book Review: A Charming Gem of a Picture Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Both you and your kids are in for a treat that's as charming as it is colorful with David Kirk's delightful picture book, Miss Spider's Wedding. There are so many things right with this gem of a book it's hard to know where to start with comments. Since Miss Spider's Wedding is, after all, a picture book, it's probably wholly appropriate to begin with the artwork. Oh! What I would give to see the original oils on canvas! Setting that aside, it truly seems to me as if author-illustrator David Kirk's palette knows no earthly bounds. Even a quick glance through the lavishly produced pages of Miss Spider's Wedding will tell you that much. From one page to the next a rich array of multihued greens, grays, yellows, blues...browns, reds, oranges, blacks and pinks awaits to delight the eyes of adults and kids alike. But that's not all. Mr. Kirk has also lovingly rendered a cast of wholly unique insect characters, from the charming Miss Spider herself to the dastardly Spiderus Reeves. Each has their own personality and seems to spring to life from backgrounds filled with myriad details, such as the delicate patterns found in maple tree leaves, the silky look and feel of spider webs, the writing on a quarter used as a table, and more. Hours of enjoyment await both young and old in discovering these kinds of individual details in Miss Spider's Wedding alone. Then...there's the story. And a fine love story it is! One fine day, Miss Spider meets Holley, and knows at once in her heart and soul that he's for her and she's for him. Even meddlesome but well-meaning beetle friends and an exceptionally vain villain can't break the bond of love between Miss Spider and her Holley no matter how hard they try, and soon every bug alive is invited to the wedding of the year. All of this is told in verse that's easy-to-read and understand. I highly recommend David Kirk's Miss Spider's Wedding whether you're an adult with a picture book collection of your own or an adult with kids looking for books they will love you for finding. I would also recommend you consider Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, God Bless The Gargoyles by Dav Pilkey, Night Of The Gargoyles by Eve Bunting and all of the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling. Enjoy!
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