This beautiful picture book, The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle, is a modern American classic indeed.  It has simple, rhythmic and repetitive text combined with large, bright illustrations.  The pictures are enhanced with delightful embossing, which makes it a multi-sensory experience for all ages! Children are introduced to many farm animals, the sounds they make as well as something each animal  likes to do as they try to persuade the spider to play.  But the spider is too busy spinning her very important web.  Every child’s library needs this book that they can read, repeat and ineract with.