UP, UP, AND AWAY

Up, Up, and Away, a book by Ginger Wadsworth

With illustrations by Patricia J. Wynne

One spring day, Spider and her brothers and sisters spill out from their egg sac into the welcoming sun. Spider is eager to spin her own web, and she escapes hungry predators--including her own siblings.  It’s a dangerous world, and a crowded one.  So one windy day, Spider follows her instincts, climbs up high, and soars up, up and away to find a new home. (Ages 4 and up)

Published by Charlesbridge Publishing

Selected for the 2009 Summer Reading List for children 3 to 6 years old. READING ROCKETS, a PBS affiliated program launching young readers

 "Reading this book is an ideal way to introduce life cycles to primary students." Selected as an NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for 2010

  


"Simply told with well-chosen words and phrases, the story reads aloud well.  The illustrations vary in tone from pastoral landscapes that set the scene to close-ups of dramatic escapes from predators that look monstrously large from the spider's point of view.  A well-crafted nonfiction picture book." BOOKLIST

" . . . retraces this life cycle in simple, non-anthropormorphic language. . . .  Along with being good preparatory material for a shared reading of Charlotte's Web . . . this may draw budding naturalists. . . ." KIRKUS REVIEWS

"Detailed illustrations and bold language make this tale of birth and death, autumn and spring, fresh, exciting, sensational as life." FOREWORD MAGAZINE


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