Spiders scuttle across our walls, hang in huge webs, or hide in burrows, waiting for something to eat to wander past. You are probably close to a spider right now, and don’t even know it! In this book, find out about Australia’s spiders, their enormous variety and how important they are to the environment.

Australia has some of the scariest animals in the world. They bite, they hiss and they leap out at you! Find out why they behave like this and what we are doing to make them so angry at us. Are they really as dangerous as we think, and why are we so scared of them?