Eileen Christelow

Eileen Christelow (born April 22, 1943) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books, both fiction and non-fiction. 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.

Biography

Christelow was born in Washington, DC to Allan Christelow, a historian and business executive, and Dorothy (Beal) Christelow, an economist. She has one sibling, brother Allan Christelow, who is a specialist in the history of Islam in North and West Africa.

Christelow met her husband, Ahren Ahrenholz, while living in his native Philadelphia, and they married in 1965.