Arachne Speaks

By Kate Hovey

Book Overview

Orb weavers! Weavers of tangled nets! All eight-legged ones... Cast to the four winds my story's thread. Arachne, classical literature's most famous weaver exhorts her spider minions in this epic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689829019
• ISBN13: 9780689829017
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.3" x 0.8" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

Bring Arachne back Alive!

This retelling of the myth would be a great basis for kids to use in creative dramatics. The rivalry, anger, and seething resentment in the text feels authentic, and would fuel good storytelling with two actors--Athena and Arachne--and a minimal amount of dialog to memorize. I'd recommend it for use in Language Arts for middle school and high school. This is not a "cutesy" version for little kids, but full of the defiant voice of Arachne and the vanity and arrogance of the gods as a counterpoint.