Silly Tilly (Marshall Cavendish, 2009).When Papa Comes Home Tonight (Simon & Schuster, 2009).

Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself (Knopf, 2009).Love My Shoes! (Ideals/Cand圜ane, 2011).

The Perfect Christmas (Holt/Ottaviano).A Big Boy Now (Harper/ HarperCollins, 2012).When No One Is Watching (Eerdmans, 2013).Love You Always (WorthyKids/Ideals, 2017).Miss Fox's Class Goes Green received the Green Book Award in the picture book's category in 2010. When No One is Watching received a starred review from School Library Journal. Here Comes the Year, Three Pebbles for a Song, The Dancing Pancake, Night Shift Daddy, When Mama Comes Home Tonight, and Song for the Whooping Crane received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly. Cold Snap was also named one of the best children's books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Reviews gave starred reviews to her books When You Are Happy, Heat Wave, In Our Backyard Garden, Sophie's Masterpiece, Three Pebbles and a Song, and Cold Snap. They met while working for a magazine company: she in circulation he as an editor. Most of her books are picture books, but she has also written novels for children. She began writing for children in 1979, when her own children were older and more independent. She won a poetry writing contest when she was in high school. She grew up in Secane, Pennsylvania attended high school in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. She wanted to be a writer from a young age.

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eileen Spinelli (née Mesi born August 16, 1942) is an American author of children's books and poetry.

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