Emma and the Coyote 
Author: Margriet Ruurs
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1999 ISBN 0-7737-3140-7 

“The great delight of this book is Barbara Spurll's vibrant, colourful pictures which have lots of farmyard detail. The facial expressions of the animals are hilarious. With the rooster's panicked expression and Emma's stern no nonsense look, children will giggling in no time. Most illustrations are a full double page to support the telling of Emma's heroics.”  - Catherine Hoyt, CM Magazine

“A delightful, noodlehead pattern story.... Barbara Spurll's Emma is a creature of wide-eyed amazement, furious energy and steely resolve. The farm world comes close up with her use of perspective'. - Paula Hart, Vancouver Sun

Mr. Christie Book Awards, Silver Seal, 1999
Grand Prize, Ex aequo - 2000 Luxcanada, illustration, children's book

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Emma’s Eggs
Author: Margriet Ruurs
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1996 ISBN 0-7737-2972-0

“The illustrations add immeasurably to the humour in this book. The greatest strength of Spurll’s pictures are their gestural quality, the best example of this being a highly amusing frame in which Emma whirls above one of her broken eggs, trying to scramble it with her feet.” –Bridget Donald, Quill & Quire

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The Flying Tortoise
Author: Tololwa M. Mollel
Oxford University Press. 1994 ISBN 0195409906

"As good as the narrative is, however, Barbara Spurll's illustrations are the real strength of this book. Her animals are comic and expressive, her settings colourful and alive. Every misguided notion that passes through Mbeku's mind is written on his face." -Janet McNaughton, Quill & Quire

Official Selection, 1995 Silver Birch Award

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