Eileen Spinelli

The Dancing Pancake (2010)

This book is just so lovely and succinct. It's a little younger than I usually enjoy, but I picked it up for my second grader and became enthralled. The voice of the main character, a 10 year old girl is so real and the sketch drawings are perfect. The book covers some serious things without b...

Silly Tilly (2009)

The pictures in this book are captivating and filled with colors. The different shading and usage of colors makes it stand out even more. This story is about a duck that is always doing something new, something different to entertain his peers. It's an excited story for young children because it'...

The Best Story (2008)

The author uses the craft of playfulness of time in the story. The character decides to enter the contest and write the best story. The family of the character gives her advice on what to right about and she tries out each story genre. Every time she tells the story it is different based upon wha...

Where I Live (2007)