(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Rocco Baviera. Mishoo, a prehistoric girl, became her clan's Dream Catcher after her mother's death. During a drought, she is drawn to the cave of the she-tiger and inspired to create paintings on its walls. The wordy prose is occasionally awkward ("I crawl through a tunnel for the lengths of more hunting men than my hands have fingers"), but the deep-toned illustrations re-creating cave paintings are evocative.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(4) K-3 In the quiet narrative, a child appreciates the labors of the orb weaver spider in her natural habitat; these images inspire his nighttime dream state. Although the various perspectives prove somewhat confusing, the spider's miniature landscape illuminates the textured illustrations in emerald and earth tones. An appendix, with its childlike handscripted font style, offers ten intriguing facts about spiders.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.