Sophie's Masterpiece Sophie's Masterpiece

Sophie's no ordinary house spider. She's an artist; and every web she spins is more wondrous than the one before. But don't mention that to the guests at Beekman's Boardinghouse, because they don't like spiders. No one there wants anything to do with Sophie or her magnificent creations -- no one except the woman on the third floor. She's a new mother "weaving" something herself; and when she runs out of yarn, Sophie knows the time has finally come to create the masterpiece of a lifetime.Eileen Spinelli and Jane Dyer, the award-winning duo who created the best-sellingWhen Mama Comes Home Tonight,team up once again to tell the charming and bittersweet tale of an exceptionally gifted spider and the lengths she's willing to go to share her gifts with those around her.

When she was a young woman, celebrated author Eileen Spinelli lived in a boardinghouse. There, she met a young mother who couldn't afford to buy her new baby a blanket and had to use an old, brown, scratchy one provided by the landlady. Many years have passed, but Eileen never forgot that experience. She wrote Sophie's Masterpiece as a way of finally giving that baby the blanket she always wanted him to have. Eileen's other picture books include When Mama Comes Home Tonight and Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch. She lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania with her husband, author Jerry Spinelli.