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Book 74
All About Series
Spiders
by Stephanie Herbek
All About
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All About Spiders
Author: Stephanie Herbek
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Spiders
by Stephanie Herbek
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This is a spider.
A spider creeps
and crawls
on eight legs.
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Most spiders eat bugs.
Some spiders build webs
to trap the bugs.
The webs are sticky.
The bugs get stuck
in the sticky webs.

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Not all spider webs
look the same.
This spider makes
a round web.
It looks like a circle.
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This spider makes
a very messy web.
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Some spiders make
tube webs.
This web has a door!
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Some spiders do not
make webs at all.
These spiders hunt
for bugs, and then
they grab them.
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This spider eats tiny fish.
The spider has long,
thin legs.
It can walk on water
and not sink.
Then it can dive down
to get a fish!
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More Spider Facts
Most spiders
have eight eyes.
Baby spiders
hatch from eggs.
All spiders can make
a string of silk.
Some very big spiders
eat mice and birds.
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