Search for your favourite author or book

Kids' Spiders of Southern Africa

ISBN 
9781779890153
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R190.00
Published 
July 2025
About the book: 

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of southern African spiders – they come in all shapes and sizes, and are more colourful and clever than you think! This jam-packed children’s book unpacks where spiders live, what they eat, how they hunt, what venom they have and how they protect their babies. Striking macrophotography showcases the world of spiders like never before. Meet a spider that spits sticky silk, one that hides in seashells, another that pretends to be an ant . . . and over fifty more – from the familiar Daddy Long Legs to exotic-looking Flower Crab Spiders, spiky Hedgehog Spiders and well-camouflaged Bark Spiders.

Other titles by this author 
About the Author

Rudi Steenkamp is the chairperson of the  Spider Club of Southern Africa.  He is an arachnophile with a passion for teaching people about the intriguing habits of spiders through  macrophotography.

Others also viewed

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into...
Seven uplifting tales of warm, wise and sarcastic cats set in modern Japan through the changing...
We work in the dark to serve the light. We are assassins.   Through a revolutionary...
The happily ever after is only part of the story… A funny, touching, hopeful gem about...