Silly Tilly / Eileen Spinelli / Modern Fantasy

Silly Tilly


Author: Eileen Spinelli

Illustrator: David Slonim
Genre: Modern Fantasy
Awards: N/A
Grade level: PK-2

Silly Tilly is an extraordinary goose. She does things differently than the other barn animals. The others think she is too silly, so they tell her they have had enough with her silliness. She stops her shenanigans, but then the barnyard animals start becoming bored. They miss the way Silly Tilly made them laugh. They decide to go apologize to Tilly. Then, she is back to her old ways and all the farm is happy in the end!

The illustrations of this book are cartoon style. They images are not realistic as the story is fictional. David Slonim, the illustrator, used acryllic, pencil, and ballpoint pen to create images that add to the comical story of a hilarious goose.

Reading this book to children from preschool until second grade would be a great introduction to rhyming patterns. Students would be able to produce rhyming words after reading even a small portion of this book because of its simple rhyme scheme.