The Spider and the Fly
by Tony DiTerlizzi
Picture book · ages 4–8 · grades K–3 · 40 pages · 2012
Why we'd hand it over
A sophisticated visual retelling of a poem where the illustrations do the real work—DiTerlizzi's web is genuinely menacing, and the fly's hubris plays differently for different ages (predator-prey at 5, manipulation and victim-blaming at 8).