Honors include:
2005 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
2004 School Library Journal, Best Books of the Year
2005 Texas Bluebonnet Award
2004 John Burroughs Honor List of Nature Books for Children
2005 National Science Teachers Association and Children's Book
Council Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children.
2005 Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
2005 Voice of Youth Advocates Nonfiction Honor List
Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice List.
2005 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List
2005 American Library Association Notable Book
2004 School Library Journal, Best Books of the Year
2005 Texas Bluebonnet Award
2004 John Burroughs Honor List of Nature Books for Children
2005 National Science Teachers Association and Children's Book
Council Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children.
2005 Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
2005 Voice of Youth Advocates Nonfiction Honor List
Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice List.
2005 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List
2005 American Library Association Notable Book
Houghton Mifflin ISBN 0-618-14799-3
Publisher's descritption. What has yellow blood, silk of steel, and skeletons on the outside? These amazing attributes don't belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth's biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas! It is with great excitement that Houghton Mifflin Books for Children is sending you The Tarantula Scientist by the noted wildlife author Sy Montgomery and the accomplished wildlife photographer Nic Bishop. Here you are invited to follow "tarantula scientist" extraordinaire Sam Marshall (he's never been bitten!) as he explores the dense interior of French Guiana, knocking on the doors of tarantula burrows in search of these hairy masters of the rainforest floor.
You will also visit the amazing spider lab at Hiram College, founded and run by Sam Marshall. It is the largest comparative spider laboratory in America and home to some 500 live spiders. Neatly stacked in towers of shoeboxes and plastic containers, these fascinating creatures wait patiently to dazzle scientists with their as yet to be discovered secrets.
The Tarantula Scientist is the latest title in Houghton Mifflin's nonfiction series Scientists in the Field, the inaugural publication of which was launched with another joint creative effort by Sy and Nic, The Snake Scientist. To research this most ancient group of spiders (tarantulas have been around for 150 million years), the pair traveled to the remote tarantula capital of the world, French Guiana, where they braved 90-degree heat, 99 percent humidity, and angry wasps.
You will also visit the amazing spider lab at Hiram College, founded and run by Sam Marshall. It is the largest comparative spider laboratory in America and home to some 500 live spiders. Neatly stacked in towers of shoeboxes and plastic containers, these fascinating creatures wait patiently to dazzle scientists with their as yet to be discovered secrets.
The Tarantula Scientist is the latest title in Houghton Mifflin's nonfiction series Scientists in the Field, the inaugural publication of which was launched with another joint creative effort by Sy and Nic, The Snake Scientist. To research this most ancient group of spiders (tarantulas have been around for 150 million years), the pair traveled to the remote tarantula capital of the world, French Guiana, where they braved 90-degree heat, 99 percent humidity, and angry wasps.
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