Review: Sharp Engaging Photographs of 8 Legged Creatures.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2013
I would say that the target audience for this book is 8+.  The pictures are bright, sharp, detailed and captioned.  There are a wide variety of spiders shown.  Many of the photos are quite dramatic.The writing is crisp and full details, it starts out with some general information including anatomy, habitats, hunting. It then gives some information on some individual species of spiders, i.e. black widow and crab spider.  The style is child friendly without being condescending.  It gives enough science but also enough of the gruesome stuff to make it fun.I viewed this on a 17" screen using both the Kindle App for PC, the Cloud Viewer and an iPad with the following results:KINDLE FOR PC: the illustrations fill about a third of the page and cannot be enlarged. For the most part the reader can see the concept title, photograph and concept factoids on one page.CLOUD READER: Even with the smallest font and the largest margin, I cannot get the concept title, photo and factoid paragraph on the same page. It usually took three pages per concept.  This does allow the photograph to fill a major of the portion of the screen which allows the reader to see a lot of detail.iPAD: While reading the story the illustration fills about 1/4 of the page, however to see more all you need to do is tap the picture and it will enlarge to fill the entire screen, (enlarged photo best scene on landscape orientation). Even on portrait orientation I was unable to see the concept title, photograph and concept paragraphs on one page.  Therefore I recommend that you read it on landscape orientation so you don't have to keep turning the device when enlarging photographs.This book has a clickable Table of Contents.I Highly recommend this informative book.ETA: to include multiple format information