Sneaky, Spinning Baby Spiders

By Sandra Markle

Book Overview

Sandra Markle has done it again, this time taking on the sneakiest of creatures- baby spiders. From the minute a mother spider lays her eggs, she's on patrol to guard against hungry predators hoping... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802796974
• ISBN13: 9780802796974
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Walker Childrens
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.4" x 0.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

spider galore!

This book is easy-to-read, informative, well-illustrated, and fun. It included full color photos of real spiders and their babies. I would recommend this book to kids ages 9-12 who would like to read and learn more about spiders, it will also make a great addition to any library. The book is filled with lots of great information that I didn't know and I feel that I learned a lot from this book.

An exraordiary primer on spiders ~ arachnophobics need not apply here!

If spiders give you the heebie jeebies the only place on earth you can escape their presence is in Antarctica. The nickname for baby spiders is "spiderlings." In school everyone learns that spiders are not insects, but arachnids. Eight legs, no wings, two body parts. Of course there are many more things you'll learn about them in this book. Certain "words" you'll come across are spinnerets, ballooning, exoskeleton, and molting. This book is a gold mine for those people who love to look at spiders. There are fantastic photographs of many different kinds, including the Scorpion-Tailed Spider, the Crab spider, The Jumping Spider, the Huntsman Spider, the Wolf Spider, the Slender Sac Spider, the Greenbottle Blue Tarantula, and the Garden Orb Web Spider. Whew, bet you didn't know there were so many and just thought of them in terms of big ones and little ones. There are 30,000 different kinds of spiders. If you have arachnophobia, fear of spiders, you won't be turned on by this book, but if you love things like spiders and snakes you'll pore over it. The close up photography is extraordinarily colorful and detailed. The text has a nice flow and is sneakily informative, a reluctant reader's gold mine. In the back of the book is a spider locating map all spiders listed in the book, interesting facts about spiders and a combined glossary/index. As the author says, and I agree, "spiders are cool!"