By Belle Deane (author)
"A colourful picture book about kindness, resilience and friendship."
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A colourful picture book about kindness, resilience and friendship. Simmie is a spider with nine legs. He’s great at weaving things but the other spiders leave him out and all he wants is to make friends. Trying to be helpful and make friends with a family at a local park doesn’t initially go well, with the family yelling at him to go away.
Upset but undeterred, Simmie continues to be his helpful self, creating things that will help the family until they realise what he was doing. This is an interesting story about not changing who you are and finding friends. Simmie is a great weaver and uses this to help others throughout the book. Despite setbacks, and the illustrations of him upset are a little bit heartbreaking, Simmie keeps going, showing resilience and staying true to his kind-hearted and generous nature.
The story works especially well because Simmie is a spider, and the interesting fact sheet at the end shows why we should all be kinder to spiders.
Charlotte Walker, A LoveReading4Kids Ambassador
Simmie is special as he has nine legs and can weave anything; however, the other spiders leave him out. He tries to make friends with a family who picnic under his tree by weaving items to help them, but they keep chasing him away, not realising he is creating the wonderful things for them. Although saddened by this, he doesn't give up but keeps on helping and hoping.
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Eventually, they find out how he has been helping and he makes friends with their child who has been playing alone.
Simmie is special as he has nine legs and can weave anything; however, the other spiders leave him out. He tries to make friends with a family who picnic under his tree by weaving items to help them, but they keep chasing him away, not realising he is creating the wonderful things for them.
Simmie the Nine-Legged Spider: Simmie's Search for Friendship features in the following genres: Indie Author Books , Indie Books We Love, Recommendations
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Simmie the Nine-Legged Spider: Simmie's Search for Friendship was written by Belle Deane and published by Belle Deane Books Ltd
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