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"At the bottom of a deep, dark hole in loose soil a baby spider was born," begins this fascinating saga of the life of a trap-door spider. An exciting and scientific account, the story covers the spider's birth and its escape from the mother's nest to balloon its web on the wind miles away, where it builds its own nest and prepares to spend its busy adult life.

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Alice L. Hopf

Alice L. Hopf

Alice L. Hopf is a naturalist and a member of many ecological groups. She is the author of Biography of an Octopus, Carab the Trap-Door Spider,... See more
Kiyo Komoda

Kiyo Komoda

1937 -
Japanese American
Kiyoaki Komada was born in Saijo-Shi, Ehime, Japan, and was married to Beverly Higashida, also an artist and illustrator. He studied at Los Angles Cit... See more

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Kirkus Reviews

Carab, The Trap-Door Spider
Any youngster wary of spiders will be doubly so after he shudders through this anthropomorphic encounter with an inhuman...

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