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The Spider and the Fly

The Spider and the Fly
Mary Howitt

The Spider and the Fly is a picture book published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers on October 1, 2002. The author and illustrator, Tony DiTerlizzi, based this book on a poem by Mary Howitt originally written in 1829. The Spider and the Fly became a Caldecott Honor book in 2003.

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“"Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly;
"'T is the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy."”

Mary Howitt book The Spider and the Fly

The Spider and the Fly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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