Spinelli, Eileen

Despite a blizzard, Christmas comes to a small church in unexpected ways.

A young child learns that love complements every mood.

Ten little mice, huddled together in Christmas snow, go off one by one to find warm places to sleep, but soon decide they would rather be together celebrating the special night.

Two families--one that is perfect and one that is far from it--celebrate Thanksgiving in their own loving ways.

In a series of poems, Diana writes about her life before and after her father loses his job and she and her family move far away to live with Grandpa Joe.

While walking home from school, a young boy experiences many scary things, both imaginary and real, and looks forward to being safe and snug at home with his parents.

Three children describe how they feel when one of their parents is away.

A mouse mother reassures her children that spring and all its delights will come again, while trying to teach them about the joys of winter.

A boy wears his new yellow shirt and is transformed in his imagination into a duck, a lion, a daffodil, a trumpet, and other things.

A child fills up his bathtub with so many toys that there is no room for him in it.