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The Story of Three Wise Kings by Tomie de Paola
Image Credit: Tommie dePaola on Amazon A Word about the Kings “The first written word about the kings appears in the Gopel of St. Matthew. His brief account tells of wise men who went to Bethlehem to honor the child who would become king of the Jews. Matthew does not give them names nor does…
The Story of the Angel Who Visited the Virgin Mary in Nazareth, as Re-told by Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola’s Book of Bible Stories Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazonp “In the sixth onth, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee,to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, ‘Greetings,…
The Story of the Magi, as Re-told by Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola’s Book of Bible Stories Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon In his Book of Bible Stories, Tomie dePaola tells the story of the Magic who traveled to visit Jesus as follows: “After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked,…
The Story of the Birth of Jesus, as Re-told by Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola’s Book of Bible Stories Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon In his Book of Bible Stories, Tomie dePaola tells the story of the birth of Jesus as follows: Jesus Is Born “In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first…
Happy Birthday to Tomie dePaola – Looking at dePaola’s Massive Contribution to People who Write for Children
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…
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…