Carnegie & Whitbread Award winning 1998 novel by David Almond. Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen?
Level 2. This introduction to the arachnid world explains how a hungry garden spider obtains food by building a web and patiently waiting to catch something tasty.
This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It (Audiobook) 2012
Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. This is not a metaphor. You will dismiss this as ridiculous fearmongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fearmongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection - the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That’s just as well, since the “cure” involves learning what a chain saw tastes like. You can’t feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can’t see it, because it decides what you see. You won’t even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed.
The exotic sights and sounds of the many insects, reptiles, birds and other animals thriving in the tropical rainforest are explored in this program. It presents facts about where animals live, what they eat, how they adapt to changes in their environment and how they protect themselves from predators. Children will be intrigued by an incredible variety of species, including iguanas, jaguars, tapirs, coatimundis, snakes, sloths, spiders, caterpillars, beetles, katydids, mantises, butterflies, howler monkeys, spider monkeys, scarlet...
Just call him prune face! Steve Boswell will never forget Carly Beth's Halloween mask. It was so gross. So terrifying. But this year Steve wants to have the scariest costume on the block. So he gets a mask from the same store where Carly Beth got hers. It looks like a creepy old man. With stringy hair. A wrinkled face. And spiders crawling out of the ears! Steve's definitely got the scariest mask around. Too bad he's starting to feel so old. And so tired. And so evil.
