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  • Samuel Marshall was.

    • The Tarantula Scientist

    June 4, 2021
    While technically speaking, Sy Montgomery’s 2004 The Tarantula Scientist could of course be considered as a picture book (and yes, I find Nic Bishop’s accompanying photographs a superb visual mirror to and for author Sy Montgomery’s printed words, albeit the pictures of in particular the tarantulas do sometimes aesthetically feel a bit uncomfortably in my face with regard to their intense focus), I would personally and instead rather consider The Tarantula Scientist more as an illustrated science and biology themed textbook, narrationally geared towards children above the age of nine or ten, but certainly also with sufficient presented information and details even for interested adult readers (who might also enjoy and be enlightened by science based texts that are sufficiently detailed and intensive but without too much potentially confusing science jargon).

    And yes and in my humble opinion, the author’s, Sy Montgomery’s writing and contents and how they are presented in The Tarantula Scientist do totally, do educationally and wonderfully provide a very much detailed and thorough (yet at the same time also straight forward and never textually overwhelming) introduction to not only tarantulas (in particular) but actually to arachnids, to spiders and their kin in general, including showing that tarantulas are considered to be living fossils (with their lineage dating back more than 150 million years), that there are actually many species of spiders which yet remain undiscovered and that featured tarantula scientist Sam Marshall is in fact one of only a handful of academics, of college/university scientists whose specific area of expertise is tarantulas (and indeed, with the inclusion of a glossary, general spider statistics and a short but sufficient bibliography of both books and relevant websites being not only the icing on an already wonderful cake for me but also moving The Tarantula Scientist far far above compare
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    • The tarantula scientist

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  • Sam Marshall loved animals but disliked

    • The Tarantula Scientist

    A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year: A “fascinating” photo-filled book on these amazing arachnids! (Booklist)

    Yellow blood? Skeletons on the outside? These attributes don’t belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. In this book you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (he’s never been bitten), as he explores the dense rain forest of French Guiana, knocking on the doors of tarantula burrows, trying to get a closer look at these incredible creatures. You’ll also visit the largest comparative spider laboratory in America - where close to five hundred live tarantulas sit in towers of stacked shoeboxes and plastic containers, waiting for their turn to dazzle and astound the scientists who study them.

    - School Library Journal (starred review)

    A Sibert Honor Book

    An ALA Notable Book

    A John Burroughs Nature Book for Young Readers

    A Kirkus Reviews Editors Choice