It's New Year's Eve and the last thing Spid wants to do is celebrate. Now Spidmas is over, he feels unloved and unappreciated. But just as Spid is thinking he'll never make anything of himself, Bid comes up with an idea that changes everything. This audiobook features 2 songs: 'Sheen Neean Kwai Luh' (Xin Nian Kuai Le) and 'New Year Ensemble (Party/Dance Version)'. Music videos of the songs will also be available on YouTube. Spid is a lowly spider, who wants to better himself, write songs, and marry his girlfriend Bid, though he is prone to hilarious mishaps mostly of his own making. He is hard-working, cool, and a role model for young children. As well as encouraging children to read and love books, Spid's adventures also teach valuable life lessons, including determination and what psychologists call a 'growth mindset' (desire to better oneself and succeed), the importance of friendship, and sustainability. With very creative prose, Spid's adventures are fun for parents, and teachers to read to, and with, their children. They present lots of opportunities to invest dramatic licence thus helping adults and children interact and engage. The humour works at multiple levels from silly and slapstick to more sophisticated wordplay and concepts. Thus, children will discover more and enjoy reading the stories time and time again.
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Product Details
Publication Date: 08 Nov 2022
Publisher: Spidling Productions Limited
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781915376053
About John Eaton
John Eaton lives and works in Taunton Somerset. UK. He is a care home manager nurse poet and song writer. John started writing in the middle of the lock-down as a means of staying sane and keeping in touch and building relationships with his granddaughter Evaleigh. He has always had an affinity with the English language and space and time provided the opportunity to create. He is passionate about encouraging literacy and love of the English language. Featuring lots of creative prose his Spid the Spider's adventures help parents to engage their children and the messages inspire a determination to succeed. Some of the themes in Spid's books also mirror John's own life. When he left school he did not know what if anything he should be good at. Being one of eight children and growing up on a council estate he did not aspire to higher purpose. Though working in a psychiatric hospital and then qualifying as a Mental Health Nurse (RMN) and then as a Registered General Nurse (RGN) led him overseas. Then to establish a successful healthcare training business and subsequently a growing care home in Somerset. His first book is a collection of poems or what he calls 'proetry' Thoughts from a Faraway Place Austin Macauley (2021). His work is inspired by the people punishment pathos and humorous proclamations he encounters in his day job. Thus far John has also written some 100 songs mostly with Pete Dymond (who has also written for Sir Paul McCartney David Essex and Mickie Most). His Spid the Spider books all feature at least 2 songs with QR codes taking readers to musical versions of the songs.