Pre-order Chicory founder Chris Baker's new picture book!
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.
Chris Baker is an author, recovering arachnophobe, and founder of a nature-focused bookshop, Chicory Naturalist. Their debut picture book, On a Mushroom Day, received a Riverby Award for excellence in nonfiction. Chris is also a certified forager and enthusiastic outdoor educator, leading walks in the Hudson Valley bioregion. Running through all of her professional endeavors is a passion for reconnecting broken chains of generational knowledge about the natural world. They live a few blocks from the Hudson River with their spouse, child and two calico cats.
Byron Eggenschwiler is an award-winning illustrator living in Calgary, Alberta. Some of his books include The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt by Riel Nason, Operatic by Kyo Maclear, Coyote Tales by Thomas King, and The Strangest Thing in the Sea by Rachel Poliquin. Byron's work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Walrus, GQ and O, The Oprah Magazine.
