Describes different types of tarantulas and their behavior.

Describes the physical features, habitat, and life cycle of tarantulas.

Find out how the world's biggest spider uses its deadly fangs, scares away enemies, and turns the hairs on its body into weapons.

Tarantulas are the hairy spiders of many people's nightmares. Piranhas are a type of fish known for their razor-sharp teeth and fierce bite. A battle between these two animals would certainly make for an interesting fight. Readers of this stimulating book will learn about habitats, adaptations, and many other factors that could help determine who the champion of such a match would be. Bright photographs and concise facts hold readers' attention while they decide who will win this beastly battle.

Take your readers beyond the world of dogs and cats with Unique Pets! In this title, they will discover the tarantula's hair-flicking defense, silk-spinning abilities, and often gentle nature. Easy-to-read text introduces the behaviors, size, appearance, natural habitat, diet, reproduction, development, and care and keeping of this prized arachnid. Large, full-color photos show off the varied colors of these delicate spiders. Your readers are unique individuals. Shouldn't their pets be, too? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The world’s biggest, scariest spiders are explored in this unforgettable book. Detail-rich text and a nightmare facts spread clarify some of the myths and facts about these hairy arachnids. Readers will be able to visualize these elusive creatures through full-color photographs.

Young children are natural problem solvers and always looking for answers, especially when it involves interesting arachnids. Guess What: Hairy Hunter: Tarantula provides young curious readers with striking visual clues and simply written hints. Using the photos and text, readers rely on visual literacy skills, reading, and reasoning as they solve the arachnid mystery. Clearly written facts give readers a deeper understanding of how the tarantula lives. Additional text features, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year: A “fascinating” photo-filled book on these amazing arachnids! (Booklist) Yellow blood? Skeletons on the outside? These attributes don’t belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. In this book you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (he’s never been bitten), as he explores the dense rain forest of French Guiana, knocking on the doors of tarantula burrows, trying to get a closer look at these incredible creatures. You’ll also visit the largest comparative spider laboratory in America—where close to five hundred live tarantulas sit in towers of stacked shoeboxes and plastic containers, waiting for their turn to dazzle and astound the scientists who study them. “Superb color photos abound in this spectacular series addition…This is a vivid look at an enthusiastic scientist energetically and happily at work…A treat, even for arachnophobes.”—School Library Journal (starred review) A Sibert Honor Book An ALA Notable Book A John Burroughs Nature Book for Young Readers A Kirkus Reviews Editors Choice

"Provides basic information about tarantulas and keeping them as pets"--Provided by publisher.

An introduction to the physical characteristics and behaviors of the tarantula spider.