Spinderella wants nothing more than to be able to count and you'd think that living in a primary school with her mother and siblings that it would all come naturally but not so. My daughter is 6 and in Year two at school and found this story straightforward to read and understand - there are even some fun facts and a game at the end of the book to enjoy once the story is over. She lives in Glasgow and spends a lot of time on stage performing her brilliant sell-out singalong shows!

Spinderella by Julia Donaldson, Sebastien Braun | Waterstones Spinderella by Julia Donaldson, Sebastien Braun | Waterstones

We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes. At university he initially studied history – fortunately, the building was shared with the art department, and when he saw the students sketching, knew he had to change. A Hairy Godmother, soccer balls (or football in this case, as the title is British), and fun with friends makes this a winning read for those readers growing in confidence. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books. We want a song about throwing crumpled-up wrapping paper into the bin” was a typical request from the BBC.The small spider is obsessed with numbers but all her other nine siblings only show an intrest in football, whilst her mother is more concerned with her children eating flys.

Spinderella (Blue Go Bananas) by Julia Donaldson | Goodreads Spinderella (Blue Go Bananas) by Julia Donaldson | Goodreads

After that, he spent a few years teaching applied art to sixth formers, before taking the plunge as a freelance illustrator. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Thanks to Busy Mummy, I got to share this with both my boys several times and they enjoyed the quaint humour throughout. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise.Then, a hairy godmother arrives to make Spinderella's dream of learning numbers come true and she is finally able to show her family the benefits of counting through a game of football. But all is not lost, her Hairy Godmother appears and guides her towards the wonderful world of numbers much to Spinderella's delight and, ultimately, her family too. As a child he spent countless hours drawing, but at secondary school there were no art classes, so he filled his homework with doodles and portraits of his teachers. Every day, Spinderella and her brothers and sisters watch the children in class, and, one day, decide to start playing football themselves.

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The way the book shows the children counting is well spread out as the group of 20 school kids divided in to two groups of 10 - with half putting on red bibs. Apart from creating pictures, Seb's favourite pastimes are making toys from wood, playing with his children and climbing the Cotswold hills on his vintage road bike. My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old.She doesn't get a lot of family support but goes on to prove them all wrong, with the help of her hairy godmother. Spinderella" by Julia Donaldson is a cute story about a cute little spider, with plenty of maths concepts embedded.