Spid the Spider Gets Spooked at Halloween

Spid is a lowly spider who wants to better himself, write songs, and marry his girlfriend Bid. His adventures teach valuable life lessons, including determination, friendship, and sustainability, and are fun for parents and teachers to read to their children. The humour works at multiple levels, making the stories enjoyable to read multiple times.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 92 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Spidling Productions Limited

Spid is a lowly spider who wants to better himself, write songs, and marry his girlfriend Bid. He is hard-working, cool, and a role model for young children. His adventures teach valuable life lessons, including determination and a growth mindset, the importance of friendship, and sustainability. With creative prose, Spid's adventures are fun for parents and teachers to read to their children, presenting opportunities to invest dramatic licence and help adults and children interact and engage. The humour also works at multiple levels, from silly and slapstick to more sophisticated wordplay and concepts, allowing children to discover more and enjoy reading the stories multiple times.
Spid settles down on Halloween night to read the halloweeniest book he could find at the mobile library. But what should have been a cozy evening by the fire turns into something rather more spooky ... and the pumpkins are not what they seem ...

The book features two songs; Wookey Whoo! and The Gang. The songs have an accompanying QR code to take the reader to a music video version of the song. You can also find music videos of the songs at https://spidthespider.com and https://www.youtube.com/spidthespider.

Spid is a lowly spider who wants to better himself, write songs, and marry his girlfriend Bid. He is hard-working, cool, and a role model for young children. As well as encouraging children to read and love books, Spid's adventures also teach valuable life lessons, including determination and what psychologists call a "growth mindset" (desire to better oneself and succeed), the importance of friendship, and sustainability. With very creative prose, Spid's adventures are fun for parents and teachers to read to, and with, their children. They present lots of opportunities to invest dramatic licence thus helping adults and children interact and engage. The humour also works at multiple levels, from silly and slapstick to more sophisticated wordplay and concepts. Thus, children will discover more and enjoy reading the stories multiple times.

Spid is a lowly spider who wants to better himself, write songs, and marry his girlfriend Bid. He is hard-working, cool, and a role model for young children. His adventures teach valuable life lessons, including determination and a growth mindset, the importance of friendship, and sustainability. With creative prose, Spid's adventures are fun for parents and teachers to read to their children, presenting opportunities to invest dramatic licence and help adults and children interact and engage. The humour also works at multiple levels, from silly and slapstick to more sophisticated wordplay and concepts, allowing children to discover more and enjoy reading the stories multiple times.

Weight: 200g
Dimension: 210 x 148 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915376008