Join us Tuesday, July 7th to help launch Chris's new picture book, Weaver and the Web, with an afternoon of fun at Chicory Naturalist! Since space is limited, we'd appreciate you registering (for free!) in advance for either the 2:30 or 4pm read alouds.
In addition to story time we'll be hosting a very-fun-super-secret (until it's very much not!) photo booth, plus free snacks (no flies or moths will be served, promise), and of course the chance to get your book signed and inscribed by Chris!
Pre-orders deeply appreciated, but we'll have books for sale of course!
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Written by Chris Baker and illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler, Weaver and the Web comes out July 7th from Godwin Books. All copies of purchased through Chicory Naturalist will be signed by the author. Feel free to leave an inscription request at checkout!
Experience an evening from the perspective of a common garden spider who could be weaving worlds just outside your door...
Once night falls, Weaver emerges from the rolled-up leaf she sleeps in during the day, and begins searching for the perfect place to spin her latest web. She climbs up and scurries down, and winds around and around until she’s created something perfect. But right after she catches her first crane fly, her web stretches and snaps and…Weaver is fallllllllling down. How will she catch bugs now?
Follow along as Weaver scuttles through the night and, with a bit of help, finds the perfect spot for web-making.
Praise~
"Weaver is never visually anthropomorphized, with all eight eyes and mandibles depicted in close-ups. This has the effect of heightening the astonishing achievement of this very nonhuman engineer...She's a brown-and-black figure in a mostly grayscale world; she perceives it most keenly through her web, which vibrates in prismatic color when a fly lands in it. Altogether, a beguiling peek at and appreciation of one of nature's everyday wonders."
★ Starred Review — The Horn Book Magazine
"The book’s most arresting spread comes when a child’s enormous face looms over a terrified Weaver, the palette draining to graphite and shadow while Weaver glows warmly orange at the center—fear, wonder, and the precariousness of small lives rendered in a glorious single image...An exceptional pairing of text and art that will reward arachnophobes, spider lovers, and the generally curious."
★ Starred Review — Kirkus Reviews
"A spotted orbweaver spider's nightly routine unfurls in Baker and Eggenschwiler's pleasingly perceptive, arachnology-guided tale. Text and art take the arachnid's perspective, with finely wrought opening grayscale artwork conveying hairy brown Weaver's low-vision experience of the world...Weaver's instinct-led exploits make for riveting reading."
★ Starred Review — Publishers Weekly
