title: Someone saw a spider: Spider facts and folktales
author:  Shirley Climo 
description: Grade 4-7 Competently rendered retellings of legends and folktales from several time periods and cultures are interspersed with bits of factual information about spider physiology and behavior and a liberal sprinkling of spider superstitions. A compendium of notes on each chapter defines terms, mentions variant themes found in the stories and adds further information. Zimmer's bold pen-and-ink drawings are attractive and generally amusing. A three-part bibliography lists titles covering "Spider Facts," "Spider Fiction" and "Spider Folk Beliefs"; this includes useful source material and interesting reading choices but is generally short on recent books. Some of the essence of the original tales has been lost, and the connecting discussion is uneven in appeal and content, but the subject is popular, and the considerable amount of material in an attractive format will be useful for booktalking and recreational reading. Margaret Bush, Simmons College, Boston<BR>Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **THE COPYCAT MYSTERY**
  
   **Created by Gertrude Chandler Warner**
  
   **Illustrated by Hodges Soileau**
  
   **ALBERT WHITMAN & Company, Chicago**
  
   **Contents**
  
  CHAPTER
  
  Chapter 1. Say Cheese!
  
  Chapter 2. A Trip Back in Time
  
  Chapter 3. An Offer to Help
  
  Chapter 4. A Trick of the Eye
  
  Chapter 5. The Copycat Strikes Again
  
  Chapter 6. Aunt Jane’s Treat
  
  Chapter 7. The Double Take
  
  Chapter 8. Putting Two and Two Together
  
  Chapter 9. What’s Wrong with This Picture?
  
  Chapter 10. April Fool Pie
  
  About the Author
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
   _ **Say Cheese!**_
  
  “Is that an octopus?” asked six-year-old Benny Alden. “Or a spider?”
  
  “I’ll give you a hint,” said Mrs. McGregor, the Aldens’ housekeeper. She was
  sitting in an overstuffed chair by the front window, a basket of worn-out
  clothing at her feet. As she held up her colorful rag creation, eight cloth
  braids dangled from a roly-poly stuffed head. “The braids are supposed to be
  arms,” she told Benny.
  
  Benny thought for a minute