The Ellis County Press: DeSoto teacher gets first childrens book published DeSoto teacher gets first childrens book published ================================================================================ Editor on 03/04/2010 11:55:00 DESOTO - East Middle School sixth-grade teacher Spelile Rivas will have her first children's book published in April this year! The bilingual picture book for children ages 4-8 is titled "No Time for Monsters." This entertaining picture book is about a boy's creative attempts to get out of doing chores. He creates an amusing scenario, his fear of "monsters," to avoid the troublesome chores, until Mama shows him how working together to complete tasks can be productive and fun. The book will be published by Pinata Books and is already available for pre-order on Amazon.com.