Spinderella
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Picture Book · Ages 3–5 · 2002 · Est. 8 min read-aloud

Spinderella

Written by Julia Donaldson · Illustrated by Sebastien Braun

A spider's love for football leads to a counting conundrum. Can her Hairy Godmother help?

3.5/7 Bookroo expert·3.8/5 Goodreads · 444 ratings
32 pages· 952 words· Est. 8 min read-aloud
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Bookroo's summary

Spinderella the spider loves football, but struggles with counting players and goals. Her siblings are ready to play, but without numbers, chaos ensues. Enter her Hairy Godmother, who might just have the perfect solution. Will Spinderella learn to count and lead her team to victory? Dive into this delightful tale of sports, magic, and learning, where every goal counts!

From the publisher

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.

At a glance
Format
Paperback
Pages
32
Words
952
Reading age
3–5
Audience
Early Reader
Lexile
AD510L
Themes & topics
Books about spidersBooks about soccerBooks about bugs and insectsBooks about footballBooks about learning numbers
What readers & critics say

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3.5

out of 7

3.5

This is only very VERY loosely a Cinderella story... it's a counting story about spiders that happens to have a Hairy Godmother in it, which felt misleading and quite random.

Marmee

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The fine print

Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
3
F&P level
~N
AR points
0.5
AR interest level
LG
AR quiz
103224
Publication
Published
October 6, 2016
First published
January 1, 2002
Publisher
Farshore
Edition
Language
English
Type
Picture Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781405282727

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