Someday [Hardcover]

Eileen Spinelli (Author), Rosie Winstead (Illustrator)

Book Description

Release date: May 10, 2007 | Age Range: 4 and up

Someday

I am going to be

a great artist.

Today

I am off to help my dad

paint the shed.

It’s hard to be content with the present moment when you are little. The future has infinitely more possibilities!

Here, the prolific and poetic Eileen Spinelli offers us the opportunity to truly enter the mind and heart of a little girl whose dreams reach well beyond today. With Spinelli’s gift for capturing the authentic experience of a child and Rosie Winstead’s utterly accessible and adorable artwork, this is sure to be a book that will inspire kids to think about what their own plans are for someday.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 4–Children will savor each page of this delightful book that alternates between Someday and the present. Goldie dreams of a busy future as an archaeologist, an animal scientist, an Olympic gymnast, and more. On the alternate pages she enjoys being a kid and hones the skills that she will need to achieve those goals–digging, counting, cartwheels–all those things that look like playing. Winstead's stylish art is a perfect fit for the whimsical text. The adorable little girl is all spindly limbs, buck-teeth, and flyaway hair, even in her dreams of adulthood. Observant readers will have fun comparing and contrasting the background elements in the someday/right now pairs of pages as they read this empowering book again and again.–June Wolfe, Bushnell-Sage Library, Sheffield, MA
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From Booklist

A small girl dreams of someday digging for dinosaur bones and finding a "T. rex," even if today what she is digging for are "coins / under the sofa cushions. / Quarters! Dimes! Nickels! / Enough for a Popsicle." Someday she will be an Olympic gymnast, even if today she is practicing cartwheels in the backyard mud. The plain, poetic words and the clear, exuberant, double-page collages show not only the girl's wild fantasies of global adventure, but also the fun at home right now, whether she is shaking food flakes into the bowl of her pet goldfish, watching two baby owls get ready to fly for the first time, or gobbling jelly beans. Young children will recognize the excitement of the small daily things, as well as the dreams of glory. Rochman, Hazel

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Product Details

• Age Range: 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Dial (May 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803729413
• ISBN-13: 978-0803729414
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Eileen Spinelli is no stranger to the Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers list. Since her debut in 1991 with Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, an IRA/CBC Children's Choice book and Christopher Award winner, she has gone on to author numerous picture books, poetry collections, and chapter books, including the best-selling When Mama Comes Home Tonight, and the critically acclaimed Sophie's Masterpiece. Eileen lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Someday- (I like to also call it Oneday...) September 14, 2009

By Whatcha Reading Now?

Format:Hardcover

We all want our kids to dream, and dream big. But never have I read such a glistening example of a how a child's dreams co-exist with her (and with our adult) realities, until I picked up Eileen Spinelli's Someday.

With lyrical lines such as, "Someday I will make friends with a dolphin. I will call her Wilma. I will ask Wilma to tell me all the secrets of the sea, and she will. Someday...", followed on the opposite page with, "Right now I am flaking fish food flakes into the bowl where my pet goldfish pumpkin lives. He blows tiny bubbles but doesn't talk to me. Maybe goldfish don't have secrets to tell..." the author creates a timeless expose of the wonder years.

Thirty-two pages of beautifully illustrated (Rosie Winstead) lines remind us parents that kids really do have the power to be everyone, and everything. It reminds us that the possibilities truly are endless. Which is a delightful thing to be reminded of.
-Reviewed by Jill Mackenzie

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars MAGICAL! July 3, 2009

By Brandelyn Bergstedt

Format:Hardcover

A charming and delightful book, Someday encourages children to imagine a world beyond their own and assures them that although their every day life may seem boring now, the future is for them to create. This is one book I never tire of reading to my daughter, and it will be on our gift list for every girl we know.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A book for all little girls November 22, 2007

By Michelle B. Jett

Format:Hardcover

In the words of my five your old daughter, "Every little girl should have this book!"