Wonderworldly! It Fell From the Sky by The Fan Brothers

IT FELL FROM THE SKY ON A THURSDAY.

It is a shiny, translucent, perfectly round thingie, with sinuous ribbons of soft color inside. Ladybug was the eyewitness. She said it bounced three times. Inchworm declines it bounced only two times, and after, all he was the counting expert. Frog shot out his long tongue and gave it a taste. It wasn't good. Adjusting his monocle, Grasshopper opined studiously....

"IT IS NOT OF EARTHLY ORIGIN!"

But just in case it was an earthly chrysalis, Luna Moth stood guard all night. But it didn't hatch. At sunrise Spider arrives and announces that the marvel is HIS. He claimed it fell right into his web.

NOBODY REMEMBERED THE WEB BEING THERE BEFORE, BUT IN FAIRNESS, NOBODY REMEMBERED IT NOT BEING THERE, EITHER.

No one dared question Spider as he begin to spin out grandeous plans to exhibit his treasure to the world. He named it WonderVille.

And with much construction assistance from the ants, WonderVille became a miraculous Mecca for multitudes of sightseers who came from far and wide. They grumbled when Spider raised the admission charge all too often, but they still came. He became fabulously rich, but the visitors from near and far kept coming and coming to see the celestial Wonder of the World, until...

They stopped coming.

WHERE HAD EVERYONE GONE?

THAT WAS BEFORE THE UNEXPECTED DISASTER!

Something with five nimble appendages reached down and snatched the wonder back up toward the sky.

Sic transit gloria!

Spider was ignored and the garden's inhabitants went back to their plebian lives, until. . .

. . . One night, inspired by the stars, Spider climbed high up to the dandelion's flower and started to spin again... . a giant web from tree to tree that was bound to capture more wonders from above...

And, as Hamlet said to Horatio, "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy," and as a wondrous assortment of otherworldly objects--pushpins and spools, legos and bottle caps--continued to fall from the skies, ripe for exhibit by an imaginative entrepreneur, Spider was back in business with his new and improved web of wonders, in The Fan Brothers' latest, It Fell from the Sky (Simon and Schuster, 2021).

In this wondrously illustrated modern fable of . . . what? The errors of exploitation and greed, the promise of seeing wonders in the flotsam and jetsam of the world? Whatever the moral of the tale might be, in this latest eye-catching work of art, tiny insects in their miniature natural world are depicted joyfully in the Fan Brother's latest picture book.

Says School Library Journal, "A whimsical story of what happens when an everyday item is suddenly seen through new eyes."

For more of the fantastic and fantastical artistry of the Fan Brothers, see their acclaimed https://booksforkidsblog.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Night+Gardener here.