Spiders: Amazing Pictures & Fun Facts on Animals in Nature (Our Amazing World Series)

I bought this book for a 5 year old who is very much into spiders. The photos are incredible. The book is worth it just for that. There are some interesting facts throughout the book about spiders, beyond the typical. Like how spiders know up from down based on sight only. If they couldn't see they wouldn't know the difference. It's fun trivia to share with a youngster.

I was utterly fascinated by the photographs. A sampling of very interesting spiders with behavioral notes, characteristics, and locations. Amazing!

My youngest daughter LOVES creepy crawlies, but my eldest hates them. As I didn't feel it was very festive to try and face her phobias, I thought it best just to share this wonderful book with the little one! We've shared a couple of Kay de Silva's picture books in the past, and as with the others, this is packed full of lovely, bright clear colour photographs and a great deal of fascinating facts too. Perfect for kids and their grown ups!

I would say that the target audience for this book is 8+. The pictures are bright, sharp, detailed and captioned. There are a wide variety of spiders shown. Many of the photos are quite dramatic. The writing is crisp and full details, it starts out with some general information including anatomy, habitats, hunting. It then gives some information on some individual species of spiders, i.e. black widow and crab spider. The style is child friendly without being condescending. It gives enough science but also enough of the gruesome stuff to make it fun. I viewed this on a 17" screen using both the Kindle App for PC, the Cloud Viewer and an iPad with the following results: KINDLE FOR PC: the illustrations fill about a third of the page and cannot be enlarged. For the most part the reader can see the concept title, photograph and concept factoids on one page. CLOUD READER: Even with the smallest font and the largest margin, I cannot get the concept title, photo and factoid paragraph on the same page. It usually took three pages per concept. This does allow the photograph to fill a major of the portion of the screen which allows the reader to see a lot of detail. iPAD: While reading the story the illustration fills about 1/4 of the page, however to see more all you need to do is tap the picture and it will enlarge to fill the entire screen, (enlarged photo best scene on landscape orientation). Even on portrait orientation I was unable to see the concept title, photograph and concept paragraphs on one page. Therefore I recommend that you read it on landscape orientation so you don't have to keep turning the device when enlarging photographs. This book has a clickable Table of Contents. I Highly recommend this informative book. ETA: to include multiple format information

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this little book. There is so much information in it that I didn't know, fascinating things. Did you know the difference between spider webs and cobwebs? I didn't, but now I do! Did I say this book is fascinating? The photos in it are excellent, too.

As a former second grade teacher, I think children of that age would love this book. But as a 71 year person reading it, I found it to be on my level also. The photos are great and the information was just enough to interest me in seeking more. I now know enough to decide that spiders might be quite interesting and not just worth an "Ooo a spider!" response.

I purchased this for my 3 yr old granddaughter who loves spiders. She loves the photos and will grow into the write up on each spider as she grows older!!

Although I have never been a fan of spiders, this book is very well written and illustrated. I found that it has just the right amount of facts as to not bore the reader ( or child being read to ). I enjoyed the book. I hope that by reading this book to my grandchildren they will come to appreciate spiders and the role they play in our ecosystem.

Photo copied and thin pages. Washed out color

Good book with amazing pictures. Can be too scary for smaller children (younger than 4)

I bought it for my 6 year old niece who once didn’t like spiders. A few chats along with this little book and now she likes spiders and knows where they all live in her house and takes me for a tour to see them;)!!

Full of good information and an easy read.

Great little book for spider mad children.