Dream Weaver
"So tiny, yet the closer you look, the bigger she gets" perfectly capturesDream 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 ofVerdiandStellaluna. 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