The toppest of top marks for this book that keeps shifting what it seems to be doing, but always, always looks gorgeous with it. The insects are overwhelmed by a surprise new entity in their world, until that is the spider comes along and monopolises it. Now we know from the start it's just a humble glass, coloured marble, so the book could begin from the basis of us being the alien monsters to a world of insects. There's the moral of greed, and it ends by being a Just So story about why the spider does what he does. Whatever the aim is it's done with wonderful humour and characterisation, and as I say superlative artwork, showing off every detail of this microworld and bringing so much light and colour to it in unexpected ways. One to treasure.

My daughter loved this story. While off with Covid we’ve read a few books today and she’s loved the illustrations especially in this book. Lovely details and nice fun storyline about how the various animals react to the strange o next that fell out of the sky.

Thankyou so much for this arc.

This is a simple story about a marble that falls from the sky and the insects around react in all different ways.

The monochrome illustrations were extremely detailed and were brought to life with the little pop of colour. Until the end when it's full colour to kind of show how all the insects have come together. The part where the fireflies light up the marble I think it's beautiful and a child would certainly think it's magical to see.

The detail and textures gone into this is amazing, the insects are really brought to life.
All the insects have such brilliant personalities, the spider however is a capitalist which ruins the place he creates for everyone else as the spider becomes greedy and selfish.

I did notice that all the insects were male except the Ladybird and the Luna Moth, which I know some will find rather sexist.

There is not alot of text in this book, but the text there says so much.
The moral of the story is don't be greedy or a jerk as it has consequences.