Description: On a rainy morning, a small cloud gets caught in a tree branch. Curious and delighted, the children bring the cloud home to their mother, who kneads it into dough and bakes it into bread. After eating the freshly baked cloud bread, the mother and children float up into the air just like clouds. This is the very work that earned its creator the title of Illustrator of the Year in the Fiction category at the 2005 Bologna International Children's Book Fair. The story's imaginative premise—a cloud turning into bread, and those who eat it flying through the sky—is brought to life through wonderfully unique illustrations with a striking sense of depth. Because the characters and props were handmade and photographed as three-dimensional sets, the illustrations carry a distinctive dimensional quality rarely seen in picture books. Readers will especially delight in the visual textures throughout the book—the soft fluffiness of the clouds, the pillowy softness of the cloud bread, and the damp, hazy texture of the misty sky.