Claire Llewellyn is a prize-winning author of non-fiction for young readers – in 1991, she was shortlisted for the prestigious TES Junior Information Book Award for Take One: Rubbish – and in 1992, she won that award for My First Book of Time. Since then, Claire has written more than 100 children’s books on a wide range of subjects. Ask Dr K Fisher About Animals was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society prizes for Science Books Junior Prize.
This book has lots of colorful, large photographs of spiders and their world. It educates children on everything from different species of spiders and their physical appearance to how they live, including making webs and eating. It is filled with facts to engage young students and make them wonder.