![]() ![]() ![]() Her father's job with the Standard Vacuum Oil Company took the family to Japan for a year, when she was 14 years old, and she spent her freshman year of high school at the American School in Japan, in Tokyo. She grew up there and in New Canaan, Connecticut. ![]() She is best known for her series about the Five Little Monkeys, starting with her retelling of the classic nursery rhyme "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed." Other notable books include stories set in her home state of Vermont stories featuring Emma the Desperate Dog and Vote!, a non-fiction work about the voting process.Ĭhristelow was born in Washington, DC to Allan Christelow, a historian and business executive, and Dorothy (Beal) Christelow, an economist. Eileen Christelow (born April 22, 1943) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books, both fiction and non-fiction. ![]()
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