The Great Spider Detective

As told by Isabel to her mummy -- with a little teeny bit of help. (Isabel is in Kindergarten and she can't read yet. Since her story requires a heroine that can read, this story Isabel is in Grade 2!)

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Isabel. She liked to learn about spiders. But there was a mystery. She had heard about a golden tree spider that spun a golden web. And it would give her a lot of gold.

She HAD to find it. She thought, in her brain, where would she find the golden tree spider? ...She thought and thought to figure out a plan...a sneaky PLAN...one that the spiders wouldn't figure out. But the spiders did not know what she was thinking. They were having a hard time to think. They didn't even know if there was any kind of special thing in her brain. They didn't figure out what she was really thinking about them.

She knew so many things about so many spiders. There was the tree spider, crab spider, white spider, black widow spider, daddy long legs, wolf spider and brown recluse.

She was driving along in the desert. Finally she found her special cave.

THAT was her plan.

She thought there was lots and lots of spiders in her cave. She told her mom to stop. She went in the cave. It was a very short cave. It was a cave that she could find out where all kinds of spiders were. She went inside the cave and she found writings of what the spiders names were. And she found them. And they were DEAD! That meant the golden tree spider was in the CAVE! She was in second grade, which meant she could read!

She found the golden tree spider alive in the cave with the golden web. It was very friendly to her and she kept it in her pocket. So she played with it outside at her home. She showed her mom. She wasn't afraid. Then they went inside for milk and cookies. Even the spider had a teeny tiny crumb cookie. They had milk and water. They bought a dog. And they lived happily ever after.

The end.

Copyright Wendy Spiegel, Los Angeles, California 2006. All rights reserved.