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How Spider Saved...
How Spider Saved Thanksgiving
Miss Quito's class puts on a Thanksgiving play, but no one brought the turkey! Spider has an idea that will save the day.
32 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 1991
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Robert Kraus
178 books27 followersRobert Kraus was an American children's author, cartoonist and publisher. Founder and publisher of Windmill Books, author and illustrator of award-winning children's books, Kraus began as a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...]
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November 30, 2022
After the enjoyable HOW SPIDER SAVED TURKEY, published a decade earlier, this Thanksgiving Spider story was a disappointment.
The bug kids are putting on a school play about the first Thanksgiving, with some dressed as Pilgrims and others as Indians. This content has not aged well, and the cringe reaches a crescendo when a character pretending to be a Native American speaks in stereotypical broken English.
The play hits a snag when the teacher forgot to bring a turkey, saying that it can't be Thanksgiving without one. Spider saves the day when he quickly fashions a bird out of balloons, and I was hoping that would satisfy the teacher and it would, at least, be a turkey-friendly Thanksgiving. However, the book concludes with the characters sitting down to dinner featuring a bird's body. What happened to Spider's previous adventure when he rescued a turkey and proclaimed him his newest friend? This story didn't seem to be in the same spirit as the earlier book at all.
The bug kids are putting on a school play about the first Thanksgiving, with some dressed as Pilgrims and others as Indians. This content has not aged well, and the cringe reaches a crescendo when a character pretending to be a Native American speaks in stereotypical broken English.
The play hits a snag when the teacher forgot to bring a turkey, saying that it can't be Thanksgiving without one. Spider saves the day when he quickly fashions a bird out of balloons, and I was hoping that would satisfy the teacher and it would, at least, be a turkey-friendly Thanksgiving. However, the book concludes with the characters sitting down to dinner featuring a bird's body. What happened to Spider's previous adventure when he rescued a turkey and proclaimed him his newest friend? This story didn't seem to be in the same spirit as the earlier book at all.
September 16, 2021
LFL find.
Lame, even without the stupid inaccuracies about the 'first Thanksgiving' that we really must stop perpetuating. (At least the "Indian" in this book is suspicious of the "forked tongue" of the invader.) I have no interest in the other Spider books of the series.
Lame, even without the stupid inaccuracies about the 'first Thanksgiving' that we really must stop perpetuating. (At least the "Indian" in this book is suspicious of the "forked tongue" of the invader.) I have no interest in the other Spider books of the series.
January 2, 2022
Another delightful spider adventure will charming art. Miss Quito is kind of a crap teacher for not remembering the turkey for her Thanks-taking production though.
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