A Very, Very Busy Spider - A Masterpiece Picture Book from the Neverland World 285

Various animals on the left, changes in spider webs on the right
Enjoy two fun things at the same time
On the left page of the book, farm animals that want to play with spiders appear one after another. Eric Carle brought ten types of animals to life through collage. All the animals are excited, from their bright eyes showing a hint of joy to their tails that seem to be swaying from both sides. And these animals approach the spider by talking to it in onomatopoeia, and they present various games using repetitive sentences with a sense of rhythm, giving readers the fun of reading.
On the right page, you can see the changes in the spider web. This is a scene where the spider's sincerity stands out in contrast to the animals on the left page. The spider webs, which start from simple lines, increase in number each time you turn the page, until they become dense and beautiful at the end. Against the background of a dark night, the yellow spider's web sparkles like stars in the night sky, maximizing the spider's day of busy work without losing focus.

A picture book you can see, hear, and feel with your fingertips.
One of the features of this book is the pictures coated with a special material. Spider webs, spider legs, and fly wings coated with a special yellow material protrude and can be felt with your fingertips. Therefore, it is widely read even by visually impaired children.

It is a beautiful work that satisfies visually impaired children while maintaining artistic quality.
-Reviewing Hornbook

The completed spider web and the busy moving spider are elements that provide tactile satisfaction, but the buzzing flies also evoke the reader's auditory imagination. The fly is near the horse's head, and in the next chapter it is between the legs of a cow and even on a pig's tail. Although the sound is not expressed in the book, the buzzing of a fly can be felt due to the change in position. It seems as if they are treating animals. When a rooster asks to go fly hunting, a fly runs away to the right page. The moment a fly stays on the left page and moves to the right page, it gets caught in the spider's web. Paris' day, which was busy circling around animals, ends in a humorous way, bringing joy to the reader.
“Very, Very Busy Spider,” which you can see, read, and feel with your fingertips, is a picture book that stimulates young readers’ senses in various ways.

Eric Carle, artist for children
Most of Eric Carle's works start from small creatures living in nature, such as caterpillars, spiders, ladybugs, fireflies, and seeds. Eric Carle became interested in nature while walking through the meadows and forests with his father during his childhood, and that interest later became the most important theme and premise that runs through his world of work. Eric Carle's works, created based on his appreciation for nature and his love for animals large and small, instill in children a reverence for nature.
Eric Carle also said that we should pay attention to the time when a child leaves home and goes to school for the first time. This is because it is a time when the enormous gap that must be crossed from the world of home and safety, play and senses to the world of reason, abstraction, order and discipline unfolds. Eric Carle wrote his book in the hope that it would be a tool to bridge that gap. Carl's book is half toy (house) and half book (school), mixing play devices such as hole-punching, shape-picking, and flaps with counting, days of the week, types of fruit, natural history information, and other educational elements. Eric Carle's desire for children to grow to the next level by reading, playing, and enjoying his books is reflected throughout his books.