The story of Spider Wars pays homage to the classical musical West Side Story and the age-old conundrum of “ the grass is always greener… .” . A point of difference for today’ s market, however, is that the main characters are… you guessed it— spiders! Australia’ s tiny dancing and brightly colored Peacock Spiders make up one gang, with the hairy common garden Wolf spiders making up the other gang. The Peacock and Wolf spiders live on different sides of the Paddock and they’ re forever fighting over Middle Ground Hill to get to the other side.But that all changes when a dazzling little Peacock Spider falls for an oh-so-pretty Wolf Spider. Banned from seeing each other, brave Sparklemuffin risks everything to rescue Wolf Mother. In the process, the sweethearts discover that life on the other side of the Paddock might not be so good after all.