Red Spider Hero

by Miller, John; Cucco, Giuliano

• ISBN13: 9781592701766
• ISBN10: 1592701760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-03
• Publisher: Enchanted Lion

Summary

Bold and quirky, this imaginative adventure story is about a real insect: the red spider mite.

On a small piece of sidewalk, there once lived a teeming colony of teeny tiny red spiders. These spiders were so tiny that when it rained they never got wet and when people stepped on them they never got squashed.

Even so, they were all quite content living there on the same patch of sidewalk. All except one little spider, who decided that he'd had enough and that the big, wide world was far more suited to him than a teeny tiny strip of sidewalk. So he stamped his feet and hollered and said he would run away. Seeing the little red spider's frustration, his grandfather stepped forward to explore the situation with his grandson and together, in a wonderful shared moment of conversation and imagination, the little red spider succeeds in going off on the grandest adventure ever!

The book's back matter includes a nonfiction section with photos about red ants.

Author Biography

John Miller spent much of his grade school years with a friend, tramping about the woods, lakes, rivers and swamps of Morris County, New Jersey. These adventures inspired his children’s books and articles about beavers, trout, starlings and other animals for many magazines.

Giuliano Cucco was an artist and illustrator. He and his wife died in 2006 when they were crossing a pedestrian crossing in Rome and were hit by a motor scooter.