Spiders Gift is the story of the Nativity told from the viewpoint of its tiniest participants--the cricket, the honeybee, and the spiderand emphasizes that every gift is valuable if its offered with love. Children ages 4-6 will delight in this book that includes a story, a prayer, and pages of facts and folklore about spiders. Author and zoologist Geraldine Ann Marshall enchants readers and opens their hearts to the true Christmas story.
1. Introduction; 2. Conception, design and implementation, 1819-1837; 3. Reactions to the Act, 1837-1854; 4. Amendments enacted and reform deferred, 1855-1872; 5. Differences, divisions, and dispensing with the registrar, 1873-1899; 6. Competing conceptions of marriage, 1900-1919; 7. Consolidating complexity, 1920-1949; 8. Convergence? 1950-1993; 9. The rise of the wedding, 1994-2020; 10. The legacy of the past and lessons for the future.
