Sophie is an artist who wants to spin beautiful creations all day long and, someday, a masterpiece. As a spider, though, Sophie has a hard time finding a welcoming place in which she can be free to live and spin. She's shooed and shuffled all over Beekman's Boardinghouse until one day she finally finds the warm, comfortable, safe home for which she always yearned -- and the inspiration for the masterpiece of her lifetime.
一只小小的蜘蛛，用细细的丝线，织出了坚轫的生命故事。

蜘蛛的世界其实很奇妙，但一般人对它们不大了解，见到了就嫌恶喊打或惊恐不已，就像这个故事里的房东太太、船长和厨师。苏菲一直不停地织，织出不同功能的作品，一次次的挫折磨练出更棒的技巧，苏非最后真的完成了儿时同伴预言的——“了不起的杰作”；就在那一刻“苏非把自己的心也织进去了”。苏菲不只织完给新生命温暖的毯子，还用生命最后的余力织出“像为王子准备的”杰作。真是令人充满敬意与惊喜！

The team behind When Mama Comes Home Tonight here introduces readers to a spider who weaves with grace and serves others with courage. Dyer's gently tinted watercolors show Sophie as a blond with a human face and a perpetually tranquil expression (often sporting a beret); her eight-limbed body, with its two arms and six colorfully-stockinged legs, seems perfectly believable. Over time, the tender-hearted arachnid weaves garments she thinks the human boarders in the boardinghouse she inhabits will find useful, but she's always chased away before she can complete them. Tiring of her nomadic life, she discovers at last a quiet mother-to-be who is not afraid of spiders and who hasn't enough money for a baby blanket. Sophie, now nearing the end of her life, then starts on her last project: "She was down to the farthest corner of the blanket when she heard the cry of the young woman's newborn baby. And there, on that farthest corner, is where Sophie wove into the blanket her very own heart." Dyer paints Sophie in various spidery attitudes; in one painting, she dozes in a knitting basket, dwarfed by huge balls of yarn. Later, at work on her piŠce de r‚sistance, she crouches, silver-haired, beside a snowy windowpane. Spinelli and Dyer's story of devotion and generosity is as delicately woven as Sophie's own work. Ages 4-7.