A fantastic new picture book all about a football-playing spider, written by Jul
ia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, with glorious full colour illustrations fr
om the talented Sebastian Braun and a sparkling, glittery foiled cover. Spindere
lla the spider has a passion for football! She tries to play a match with her br
others and sisters but she doesn't know how many spiders should be on each team.
Even worse, she can't count the goals! Luckily for Spinderella, her Hairy Godmo
ther has a plan...Julia Donaldson does it again in this hugely engaging and funn
y story all about football, spiders and counting - what's not to love! The perfe
ct picture book for children of all ages - boys and girls alike.
Julia Donald
son is the internationally renowned author of the best-loved picture books in th
e world, including The Gruffalo, What the Ladybird Heard, Sugarlump and the Unic
orn and Night Monkey, Day Monkey. Julia Donaldson's collaborations with Axel Sch
effler have sold millions of copies, and Room on the Broom is now an Academy Awa
rd-nominated short film. Sebastian Braun studied fine and applied arts at Strasb
ourg University.
He moved to London in 2000 and since then has been working e
xclusively on children's picture books, having been published by Orchard, Walker
, Campbell, HarperCollins and Puffin.
