Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Keywords: wave, heat
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 015216779X
ISBN-13: 9780152167790

The mercury is climbing in Lumberville, and the folks are doing everything they can to keep cool. Officer McGinnis spends the day in a cold bath, Lottie Mims does her housework in her bathing suit, and Abigail and Ralphie Blue sell ice cubes. When the temperature refuses to relent, the entire community seeks solace by the river--where everyone dreams of cool relief.      A cast of quirky characters and lots of playful details from two celebrated picture-book talents make this heat wave look like fun! (20070601)

Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: buzz
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2010-07-06
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1416949259
ISBN-13: 9781416949251

Buzz loves absolutely everything there is about being a bee. She loves her yellow and black jacket. She loves the way the flowers smell in the springtime. But the thing she loves most of all is being able to fly. Through the trees and down around the pond, past the farm and around the rosebushes - she flies everywhere. But when she hears that bees aren’t supposed to be able to fly, she finds herself unable to get off the ground. What is little Buzz to do? How will she find her wings again?

Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Dial
Keywords: story
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-05-29
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0803730551
ISBN-13: 9780803730557

The best story is one that comes from the heart The library is having a contest for the best story, and the quirky narrator of this story just has to win that rollercoaster ride with her favorite author! But what makes a story the best? Her brother Tim says the best stories have lots of action. Her father thinks the best stories are the funniest. And Aunt Jane tells her the best stories have to make people cry. A story that does all these things doesnÂ’t seem quite right, though, and the one thing the whole family can agree on is that the best story has to be your own. Anne WilsdorfÂ’s h

Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Keywords: shirt, yellow, new
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0805062424
ISBN-13: 9780805062427

A playful journey into a child’s imagination."In my new yellow shirtI am a duck quacking,splashing through a big puddle of sun.Watch out! Now I’m a taxi-- HONK! HONK! --zooming down the street."When a little boy gets a plain yellow shirt for his birthday, his friend Sam thinks it’s a very ordinary gift. But the birthday boy has other ideas. Before long, he has transformed himself into many wonderful yellow things.In this cheerful story, Eileen Spinelli’s energetic text and Hideko Takahashi’s vibrant pictures prove that, with imagination, the sky’s the limit.

Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Dial
Keywords: someday
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-05-10
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0803729413
ISBN-13: 9780803729414

Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Keywords: year, comes
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0805066853
ISBN-13: 9780805066852

A poetic introduction to a year and the seasons."I am the January darkdappled and deep,teasing you, easing youout of your cuddle-down sleep."I am the February frost, the March wind, the April rain . . . I am the year gliding swiftly from month to month, season to season, urging you with me. Won’t you come along?Eileen Spinelli’s soothing words and Keiko Narahashi’s inviting illustrations make the ups and downs of the weather something to savor rather than endure. One by one the months arrive, and each is a pleasure to meet!

Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb
Keywords: tilly, silly
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0761455256
ISBN-13: 9780761455257

"Tilly is not an ordinary goose. She takes her baths in apple juice. Shewears a pancake as a hat. She tries to ride the farmer’s cat." But isTilly too silly? And when she stops entertaining the barnyard animalswith her antics the farm becomes a quite and unhappy place. DavidSlonim’s acrylic, pencil, and ballpoint pen illustrations add to the hilarity inthis story about a one-of-a-kind silly goose.