Childrens Books on Spiders

  • Back, Christine and Barrie Watts. Spiders Web. Stopwatch Books. Silver Burdett Press, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
    (Photos and drawings of how a spiders web is made)
  • Bailey, Donna. 1991. Spiders. Animal World. Steck-Vaughn Company, Austin, TX
    (Photos, life cycle, diversity)
  • Bailey, Donna, 1991. Spider’s Web. Animal World. Steck-Vaughn Company, Austin, TX
    (Photos, web building)
  • Bailey, Donna. 1991. Unusual Spiders. Animal World. Steck-Vaughn Company, Austin, TX
    (Photos, diversity)
  • Bailey, Jill. 1989. The life cycle of a spider. Bookwright Press, NY.
    (Drawings, spider life cycle)
  • Barrett, Norman. 1989. Spiders. Franklin Watts, London. (Photos, spider diversity)
  • Berger, Melvin and Gilda Berger. 2000. Do all spiders spin webs? Questions and answers about spiders. Scholastic Question and Answer Series, Scholastic Inc., NY
    (Accurate drawings, extensive questions and sensible answers.)
  • Berman, Ruth. 1998. Spinning Spiders. Lerner Publications Company, Minn., MN.
    (Photos, spider biology, little on silk use)
  • Biel, Timothy. 1992. Spiders. Zoobooks. Wildlife Education, Ltd., San Diego, CA.
    (Photos, drawings, life history, diversity)
  • Carle, Eric. 1984. The Very Busy Spider. Scholastic Inc. (ISBN 0-590-43119-6)
  • Chinery, Michael. 1991. Life Story: Spider. Troll Associates.
    (Photos & drawings, life cycle)
  • Cole, Joanna. 1995. Spiders Lunch: All about Garden Spiders. All Aboard Reading: Level 1.
  • Grosset & Dunlap, NY.
    (Drawings, spider biology)
  • Gibbons, Gail. 1993. Spiders. Scholastic Inc., NY
    (Drawings, spider biology)
  • Ivy, Bill. 1986. Spiders. Natures Children. Grolier Educational Corporation, Danbury, Conn.
    (Photos, diverse aspects of spider biology)
  • Jones, Cherril. 1997. Science Explorations: Primary. Teacher Created materials, Inc.
    (PO Box 1040, Huntington Beach, CA 92647, ISBN – 1-55734-044-7)
  • Lovett, Sarah. 1991. Extremely weird spiders. John Muir Publications, Santa Fe, NM.
    (Photos and drawings about spider biology)
  • Martin, Louise. 1988. Bird Eating Spiders. The Spider Discovery Library. Rourke Enterprises, Vero Beach, FL.
    (Photos, biology of tarantulas)
  • Martin, Louise. 1988. Black Widow Spiders. The Spider Discovery Library. Rourke Enterprises, Vero Beach, FL.
    (Photos, biology of the fishing spider)
  • Martin, Louise. 1988. Fishing Spiders. The Spider Discovery Library. Rourke Enterprises, Vero Beach, FL.
    (Photos, biology of fishing spiders)
  • Martin, Louise. 1988. Funnel Web Spiders. The Spider Discovery Library. Rourke Enterprises, Vero Beach, FL.
    (Photos, biology of funnel web spiders)
  • Martin, Louise. 1988. Trapdoor Spiders. The Spider Discovery Library. Rourke Enterprises, Vero Beach, FL.
    (Photos, biology of trapdoor spiders)
  • Nicholas, Christopher. 1999. Know-It-Alls: Spiders! McClanahan Book Company, Inc.
    (Accurate drawings, spider biology)
  • 1995. Spiders. Theme For A Day. Grades 1-2. Teacher Created materials, Inc.
    (PO Box 1040, Huntington Beach, CA 92647, ISBN 1-55734-507-4)