Another stunning book by the Fan brothers, showing how a cast of minibeast react to a strange object that has fallen from the sky. Everyone has an opinion on what it could be or what it definitely isn't. The spider claims that the marvel fell into his web and plans a grand exhibit around it, then starts charging admission to WonderVille. When the spider increases prices, the visitors stop coming, and then the marvel disappears.

I loved the beautiful monochromatic illustrations, which really made the marble stand out on the page. The title and also the storyline reminded me a bit of an old film, The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is why I initially picked up this book. My children loved the story and how it looked at a toy from an entirely different perspective. It's a great book for discussing beauty, greed, and different points of view, and one that will be added to our bookshelves.

Every bit as magical as you'd expect from the Fan Brothers. At the outset, this story explores the idea of finding beauty in small things, as a beautiful, mysterious object falls from the sky. The insects marvel at the object, and the beautiful illustrations capture their curiosity and wonder. As the story progresses, spider takes control of the object and starts charging the insects just to catch a glimpse of it. A story that explores themes of curiosity, sharing and taking more than your fair share. In the end, sharing brings colour and brightness to everyone.

This is a truly beautiful book with a wonderful message about friendship and isolation from being greedy. The images are beautiful and enchanting and the story is a delight.. I even felt the spider’s loneliness after he made mistakes .This is a perfect book for key stage 1 … a perfect story with so many opportunities for drama and writing 😁a winning book

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.