Tomie dePaola was born on September 15, and today, I want to honor him. In addition to being a writer and a painter, I am also a gardener, and recently, I began looking at the healing properties of plants. As research often does, that research led me again to dePaola’s Strega Nona, the Grandma…
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How to Lay Out a Picture Book – How to Weave Images and Words Together on a Page – Examples
In a systematic way, I am researching the wrting and illustrating career of Tomie dePaola. When I started this project, I was simply trying to think of a way to honor dePaola on his birthday–September 15. The prolific picture book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola was born on September 15 1934. After I began my…
Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose – First Published in 1985
Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose – First Published in 1985 Image Credit: Amazom
Tomie dePaola’s Book of Bible Stories
Tomie dePaola’s Book of Bible Stories Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Tomie dePaola’s Book of Bible Stories Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon The Wolf Will Live with the Lamb The Old Testament God Creates the World Adam and Eve Disobey God Cain and Abel Noah and the Great Flood The Tower of Babel…
The Patterns & Designs in the Books by Tomie dePaola
One of the rewards of my re-studying of the books by Tomie dePaola is that I am realizing how very much he used simplified designs and repeated patterns in his later books. I have also noticed how he repeately uses several motifs–like the white birds and the hearts. In her book Tomie dePaola: His Art…
The Good Samaritan and Other Parables – Tomie dePaola
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The Miracles of Jesus – Tomie dePaola
The Miracles of Jesus – Tomie dePaola – 1987 Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Image from The Miracles of Jesus Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Image from The Miracles of Jesus Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Image from The Miracles of Jesus Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Image from The Miracles of Jesus…
The Clown of God – Tomie dePaola
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Tomie dePaola Autobiographical Picture Books
In her biography, Tomie dePaola His Art & His Stories, Barbara Elleman said the following about dePaola’s tendency to write about himself and about his family: Autobiographical Tales The Beginning of the 26 Fairmount Series “His father, an ardent photographer and also a home-movie buff, rarely let a birthday party, summer picnic at a beach,…
The Baby Sister
The Baby Sister – First Published in 1965 but dePaola Re-designed the Book Later Image Credit dePaola on Amazon Image from The Baby Sister Image Credit dePaola on Amazon Image from The Baby Sister Image Credit dePaola on Amazon| Image from The Baby Sister Image Credit dePaola on Amazon Image from The Baby Sister Image…