Cece Bell

While she’s an author and an illustrator, she’s unfortunately not a jazz pianist. She’s got a graduate degree in design and illustration from Kent State University. She is also hearing impaired.

The best place to start is the Candlewick Sparks series, the earliest of Cece Bell's multi-book series: it opens with Zelda and Ivy (1998) and runs to 46 books across 1998–2025, ending with The Cave and Other Stories (2025). Cece Bell's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Cece Bell has 66 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1998 and 2025. 56 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Candlewick Sparks series with 46 books — and 10 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Cece Bell's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Candlewick Sparks (1998–2025, 46 books), Sock Monkey (2003–2006, 4 books) and Rabbit & Robot (2012–2016, 2 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Cece Bell's 66 books into 5 named series and 10 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Candlewick Sparks (46 books, 1998–2025); Sock Monkey (4 books, 2003–2006); Chick and Brain (2 books, 2019–2020); Rabbit & Robot (2 books, 2012–2016); Yam and Donkey (2 books, 2015–2019).