La Tarantula

The legendary terror of the spider world — the tarantula — is the subject of this fascinating book-and-model kit. Through intriguing facts and information on each page, young readers learn how these skilled predators capture and kill insects and even small animals, how they use their bodies for protection and camouflage, and why their blood is green. The bundled model is simple to build, deconstruct, and reconstruct layer-by-layer and system-by-system, giving children the excitement of hands-on discovery of a creature they usually see only on television or in a glass case at the zoo.