Presents a children's book for early readers that describes spiders, their importance to nature, their life cycles, why and how their weave webs, and more.

Fern raises the little runt pig, Wilbur, only to have her father give him away

Explores the lives of all kinds of bugs, describes their habits and features, and provides Internet sites for extended learning opportunities.

Having been discovered, a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders must flee their cozy home in a symphony hall and go searching for a new place to live.

"Wicked Bugs: The Meanest, Deadliest, Grossest Bugs on Earth is a middle-grade adaptation of Amy Stewart's Wicked Bugs that features profiles of the world's scariest, deadliest, and grossest bugs, from the most painful hornet to flies that transmit deadly diseases to millipedes that stop traffic, to "bookworms" that devour libraries. With its featured bugs organized by categories that match the upper elementary science curriculum, this humorous, fascinating,...

Uses text, illustrations, and activities to present all sorts of information about insects and spiders.

Westly is as ready as his caterpillar friends to keep their beautiful territory free of lesser creatures as they await the day they turn into delicate butterflies, but when he finally emerges from his crysalis, he discovers he is vastly different from hisfriends.

Describes some of the world's largest insects and spiders, including the Goliath beetle, praying mantis, tarantula, and giant atlas moth.

Buster, a walnut orb weaving spider, enlists the help of Jo Beth, one of a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders, to help stop humans who are stealing from the rare books room of the Boston Public Library, where the spiders live.

A story of gothic suspense about a powerful family, the magical and dangerous silk their fortune is built upon and the exploitative history they are desperately trying to hide.