Daddy Long Legs

By Ann Chatham

Daddy Long Legs is a story about a greedy little spider who learned a valuable and painful lesson. He learned to think before he acted. Daddy saw what he thought was a very big blowfly that he could eat but that was a mistake. He didn’t understand what had happened and why he was in so much pain.

‘Daddy’ was determined not to make the same mistake again – his life depended on him being able to eat blowflies.

Daddy went in search for a way to solve his problem. After a long and scary journey ‘Daddy’ discovered the difference between what he could have and what was not good for hom.

Daddy Long Legs has a lesson for us too: In our real world spiders are very important creatures that help keep our environment free from insects that spread disease.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: May 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9798369491522

Ann Chatham

I live on the south coast of New South Wales Australia, where I live with my husband and one grown up daughter (the other five have left the nest). It is in this place where I have finally given my spirit permission to speak after being silent and afraid for far too long. I was born and lived my formative years in the tiny country town of Peak Hill. My home was a tumbling-down shack in the poor farming community, where my mother, from the age of sixteen, raised six children. My father, older brothers, and uncles were shearers, drovers, and stockmen. A severe drought drove many families off their farms and into the cities to find work. My parents, with my sister and I, came to Wollongong, where my father found work in the coal mines.

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