Press clippings
French Toast Sundays
For many families, the death of a grandparent is observed with both religious and secular customs, and all should find a note of reassurance and comfort here.
Kirkus, 1st February 2018Gloria Spielman on Marcel Marceau
I have three picture books ready and looking for a home.
Nicki Richesin, The Children's Book Review, 19th November 2011Silence, Blessed Silence
One of the upshots of all the reading and thinking I did for Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, was that I ended up doing a lot of thinking about something I'd never thought that much about before - silence and its power.
Gloria Spielman, Foward, 4th November 2011My First Writing Group: The Internet
It all started back in March 1999. We'd just got our very first home Internet connection and I was setting off to navigate cyberspace and figure out what exactly was out there in that World Wide Web thing that everyone was going on about.
Gloria Spielman, Foward, 2nd November 2011University of the Ghetto
When I'm back in London there's a building I like to visit. It's the Whitechapel Gallery in London's East End.
Gloria Spielman, Foward, 31st October 2011Review - Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime
Reaching well beyond his role as a mime, Spielman's picture-book biography puts a fascinating new face on Marceau.
Publishers Weekly, 25th October 2011Review: Marcel Marceau by Gloria Spielman
Speilman's language in this book soars, even poetic when describing what Marceau could do through mime.
SDSU Children's Literature Reviews, 25th October 2011Men who made magic
A puppeteer, a mime and a magician are the worthy subjects of three very different biographies for middle-grade readers about men who mastered some form of magic.
The New York Times, 5th October 2011