Imagine a scientist, afraid of the dark as a child, who spends much of her time in dark, deserted places looking for spiders.Photographs, many of them spectacular, accompany the story of arachnologist Greta Binford as she grows up and becomes a professor of biology specializing in arachnids.The reader accompanies Binford on a research quest to the Dominican Republic on a search for the deadly brown recluse spider to determine their early origins and their migration to North America.Children fascinated with spiders will catch the infectious spirit of a scientist at work.A glossary of spiders accompanies the text.
Recommended by Beth Yankey, Librarian, Virginia