Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of some of the world's largest spiders that often build their nests in trees and feed on birds and small animals.
Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.
Text and photographs introduce some of the most amazing members of the spider family, such as bird-eating spiders, spitting spiders, and banana spiders.
Third-grader Todd, suffering from a run of bad luck, brightens up when he learns that the unit on spiders he has been forced into at school--Todd hates spiders--may actually teach him a way to find the thief of his beloved baseball card collection.
