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Sophie's Masterpiece: A Spider's Tale
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Sophie's Masterpiece: A Spider's Tale Hardcover - 2001

by Eileen Spinelli

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
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Sophie is not an average spider--she's an artist! Every web she spins is more wondrous than the one before, especially when she spins up something special for the new baby. Full-color illustrations.

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New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001 Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York. 2001. Hardcover. 3rd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($16.00); light bumping to head and upper tips. Pictorial laminate boards and spine with red, black, and white lettering on the spine and front board. Red endpapers. 30 pp 8vo oblong. Sophie is a spider who lives in Beekman's Boardinghouse where she weaves very artistic webs. One day a pregnant lady moved into the 3rd floor room where Sophie also resided. The lady was knitting something and Sophie decided to create the masterpiece of her lifetime for the new baby. A clean very presentable copy.
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  • Title Sophie's Masterpiece: A Spider's Tale
  • Author Eileen Spinelli
  • Illustrator Jane Dyer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York, NY
  • Date 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 015086
  • ISBN 9780689801129 / 0689801122
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.88 x 11.3 x 0.32 in (22.56 x 28.70 x 0.81 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 07 years
  • Grade levels P - 2
  • Reading level 600
  • Themes
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects Boardinghouses, Spiders
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044063
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Summary

Sophie's no ordinary house spider. She's an artist; and every web she spins is more wondrous than the one before. But don't mention that to the guests at Beekman's Boardinghouse, because they don't like spiders. No one there wants anything to do with Sophie or her magnificent creations -- no one except the woman on the third floor. She's a new mother "weaving" something herself; and when she runs out of yarn, Sophie knows the time has finally come to create the masterpiece of a lifetime.
Eileen Spinelli and Jane Dyer, the award-winning duo who created the best-selling When Mama Comes Home Tonight, team up once again to tell the charming and bittersweet tale of an exceptionally gifted spider and the lengths she's willing to go to share her gifts with those around her.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2001, Page 1551
  • Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's, 01/01/2002, Page 769
  • Horn Book Magazine, 07/01/2001, Page 444
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2001, Page 276
  • Ingram Children's Advance, 05/01/2001, Page 48
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 03/15/2001, Page 422
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/14/2001, Page 81
  • School Library Journal, 05/01/2001, Page 135

About the author

Eileen Spinelli has written many books for children. Her 1991 debut Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch was?a Christopher Award winner, and she has gone on to author numerous picture books, poetry collections, and chapter books, including the bestselling?When Mama Comes Home Tonight, ?and the critically acclaimed?Sophie's Masterpiece.?Eileen lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

Jane Dyer is the illustrator of many books for children, including When Mama Comes Home Tonight, Sophie's Masterpiece by Eileen Spinelli, Roly Poly by Mem Fox, and the New York Times bestselling Cookies series by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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