I'M TRYING TO LOVE SPIDERS

I’m Trying to Love Spiders will help you see these amazing arachnids in a whole new light, from their awesomely excessive eight eyes, to the seventy-five pounds of bugs a spider can eat in a single year! And you’re sure to feel better knowing you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than being fatally bit by a spider. Comforting, right? No? Either way, there’s heaps more information in here to help you forget your fears... or at least laugh a lot!

Do you run screaming when you see anything with eight hairy legs? Do you grab a book to squash it?

With comedic timing, the arachnid-phobic narrator explains as many fascinating facts about spiders as s/he can muster, including their superpower ability to walk up walls and to eat more than a dog's weight in bugs in a year!

But getting over one's fear is a work in progress, as the cartoon-style illustrations make clear. Sometimes you just have to smoosh a few before you can totally declare your love.

One thing's for sure, by the end of I'm Trying to Love Spiders, you'll never see a spider in the same way again!

Bethany Barton was drawing monsters for her other picture books (This Monster Needs A Haircut, This Monster Cannot Wait) when a spider crawled across the page and demanded her attention. Since she couldn’t smash Mr. Spider into her artwork, she decided to try and love him. It wasn’t easy (RIP Mr. Spider) but in the process, this book was born. When she isn’t writing or illustrating books about awesome and icky things, Bethany spends her days decorating sets and painting miniatures for film/TV. Bethany lives in Los Angeles with her rad husband, their adorable son, and an outrageous number of garden spiders she won’t let anybody smash. (Well... unless they’re really big.)