Dream Weaver - Hardcover

London, Johnathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773730613 ISBN 13: 9780773730618

Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1998

Synopsis

Deep in the forest, quietly nestled on the undisturbed soft earth, lives a small yellow spider. Look closely. You might be able to see it move. Look closer still. You might be able to see the world. Let the spider draw you in. Soon its world will become your own. Dream Weaver. A little boy happens upon a tiny yellow spider in the forest and becomes captivated. As he watches the busy spider weave and work, his fascination draws him in until every detail in the spider's world is as large and vivid as in his own. That night, asleep in his bed, he thinks of his encounter and returns to the spider's world in his dreams. Includes a page of facts about spiders.

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Review

"So tiny, yet the closer you look, the bigger she gets" perfectly captures Dream Weaver, Jonathan London and illustrator Rocco Baviera's evocative, hypnotic picture book about a little boy watching a tiny yellow spider, in the up-close-and-personal vein of Verdi and Stellaluna. If you're quiet and you really listen, can you hear the spider's feet on the sparkling web? Baviera's ultramagnified, crayon-pencil illustrations make you feel like it might be possible. The spider's web shimmers with the slightest wind, and a "raindrop on a fallen leaf is a forest pool." Magically, this talented pair manages to make the little yellow spider's webbed world soothing bedtime fare--the young boy goes home from spider gazing to dream about weaving a web of his own to catch fallen stars and return them to the night sky. (Great read aloud, ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson

About the Author

Johnathan London is a Fitzhenry and Whiteside author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0773730613
• ISBN 13: 9780773730618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32