Overview

When Lucy can't weave a perfect circle like all the other little spiders at web-weaving school, she dreams of a farm Grammy likes to tell her poems about. Together they visit the farm and Lucy gathers hand-dyed yarn threads from the weavers who live there and other treasures to create her lopsided perfect, and oh-so-fancy web. Classic nature poems are introduced, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver's poem, ""This World"", reprinted in full by permission of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency as agent for the author. Copyright@Mary Oliver2014 with permission by Bill Reichblum. Whether read at home or in a classroom, Lucy's Lopsided Web is an inspiring celebration of the beauty of imagination and imperfection. As E.B. White once counseled: ""But real life is only one kind of life - there is also the life of the Imagination.""

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Highly recommended as an antidote to the challenges of our modern-day expectations to be 'perfect', and 'fit the mold'. - Mark Cassidy, Software Developer Adorable Lucy engages our imaginations as we follow her dream to weave her first web. The accompanying illustrations with references to well-known poems, further delight the senses and education of young children. - Katherine Kindle, retired Elementary School Teacher

Author Information

Sarah Ragsdale is a published writer and poet with a master's degree in Early Childhood Education and Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. She was a Staff Developer at Bank Street College for their outreach program and taught Advanced English as a Second Language to foreign Chiefs of Staff at the United Nations. She currently lives with her husband in South County, Rhode Island, where she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and is active in children's book and poet writing communities. Virginia García studied Illustration and Fine Arts in Murcia, Spain where she lives with her husband and two young children. She teaches art in Murcia at the secondary level. She is a freelance artist of children's books and is best known for creating whimsical characters.

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