Spider's Lunch

All Aboard Science Reader: Station Stop 1

by Joanna Cole, Ron Broda (Illustrator)

Level 2. This introduction to the arachnid world explains how a hungry garden spider obtains food by building a web and patiently waiting to catch something tasty.

Genres: Picture Books, Science, Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1995

About the author

Joanna Cole, who also wrote under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet, was an author of children’s books who teaches science.

She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus.

Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.

Reviews

[Mariah Roze]

This was a good simple read that my students enjoyed :)

[Heidi]

Very detailed on the life of a spider. My little guy brought it home from school to read, and I was rather impressed with the information packed into a beginning reader book, in such an early reader friendly format. Great illustration work too.

[William Denny]

this was a very cool book