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Nic Bishop: Spiders
Honor Book:Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award -Children's Book (2008)
Nominee:Delaware Diamonds Award -Grades 3-5 (2009)
Nic Bishop's signature up-close, stop-action photographs show spiders larger than life.For the first to third grade set, spiders are fascinating and suitably gruesome, especially when looked at in EXTREME close-up. Amazing images show the beauty and otherworldliness of spiders. Simple, engaging text conveys basic information about spiders as well as cool and quirky facts. One stop-action montage shows a spider leaping twenty times its body length!
Book Details
- Publisher: Scholastic
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2007
- Pages: 48
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 11.20in - 8.44in - 0.40in - 0.97lb
- EAN: 9780439877565
- Recommended age: 04-08
- Categories: • Animals - Insects, Spiders, etc.
About the Author
Sibert Medalist Nic Bishop is the author and photographer of many award-winning books for children, including Red-Eyed Tree Frog; Chameleon, Chameleon; Nic Bishop Spiders; and most recently, Nic Bishop Snakes. He has a doctorate in biological sciences and a passionate interest in many of the smaller animals on our planet. Nic lives in New Zealand. Visit him online at nicbishop.com.
Praise for this book
Praise for Nic Bishop Spiders: An ALA Sibert Honor BookAn NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book"Dazzling full-color close ups." -School Library Journal, starred review"Packed with astonishing facts" -Booklist, starred review