Your kids will love learning to dance with Spider. This fun, interactive book is loaded with exciting animal illustrations. In Spider’s quest to learn to dance, he meets an elephant, a sloth, a giraffe, a monkey, a bluebird, a gorilla, a hawk, and a lion. A thrilling book to read to preschool age kids, Spiders Dance will get you wiggling your toes!

When I read the book Spiders Dance to Hailey, my little six year old kindergarten student, she was very engaged in the story and performed the activities that ‘people are able to do.’
Hailey’s concern for Spider’s plight increased as the book progressed and she asked ‘will Spider ever be able to dance?’ Delight and relief for Spider was evident as we discovered that Spider in fact did have ‘rhythm and balance, ’ and that he COULD DANCE!

This little kindergartner said, as we began the book, that ‘spiders give her the creeps.’ By the end of the book, she agreed that this spider was very cute and perhaps she will look at spiders in a different way in the future. Susan Hatch

Spiders Dance is a children’s picture book by author M Carroll and illustrator Bobbie Powell, featured artist of other children’s books including The Tree Who Walked Through Time A Tree Identification Story. and also author of The Tree Who Walked Through Time A Tree Identification Story. You can find out more at anamcara-press.com & thetreebook.org.

M CARROLL is a writer, photographer and graphic designer. The children’s art book, The Tree Who Walked Through Time A Tree Identification Story was published in 2014 in collaboration with 17 local artists as a community project. Profits from this project benefit children’s art education in Kansas.M Carroll published A Wyoming Cowboy in Hitler’s Germany in 2016. The book focuses on history and original documents and photography from WWII, telling the story of H Carroll, a WWII reconnessance photographer, paratrooper, and POW.M Carroll published Spiders Dance in 2017 with artist Bobbie Powell for pre-school children, and disabled or challenged youth as a joyful, interactive book to explore possibilities. Carroll blogs about consciousness and community at maureencarroll.com. Follow her explorations on Facebook and Pinterest, or reach her through her publisher, Anamcara Press LLC.

BOBBIE POWELL graduated in 2005 from KU with a Bachelors of Fine Arts, majoring in Painting. Since graduating she has sold work at the Holiday Art Fair (Lawrence Arts Center) and Art in the Park in Anthony, KS. She has shown work at the new and old Lawrence Public Library, The Merc (Lawrence, KS), The Arboretum (Overland Park, KS), The Mulvane Museum of Art (Topeka, KS), and Powell Gardens (Kingsville, MO). Bobbie has shown art in many of the Final Friday art celebrations in Lawrence since 2009 and is still actively showing with groups at varying locations around Lawrence. Bobbie has also shown in one Kansas City art show during their First Friday events. A mural was painted as a donation of time for the nursing and elder care home in Anthony, KS.