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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Tomie dePaola’s Earliest Books Were Crude First Tries –But They Launched His Immense Career – Tip from Tomie dePaola: Allow Yourself to Try
Image Credit: My Retro Reads The Wonderful Dragon of Timlin Tomie dePaola – 1966 Image Credit: My Retro Reads Fight the Night – 1968 Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Image from Fight the Night Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Image from Fight the Night The art in dePaola’s book Fight the Night is a bit…
Tomie dePaola Changed the Appearance of Strega Nona Over Time — He Dared to Edit — He Dared to Try Something New
I’ve taught people of all ages, and I have noted that most people resist changing their original product–be it a bit of writing or a bit of visual art. [I have taught both writing and art.] People resist changing what they thought were their creative babies. I am studying Tomie dePaola’s writing and illustrating career…
The Worlds of Tomie dePaola
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Strega Nona’s Gift
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Merry Christmas, Strega Nona
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Stega Nona Takes A Vacation
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Tomie dePaola: His Art & His Stories
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The Magical World of Strega Nona – Tomie dePaola
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Letters from Strega Nona – Lessons from Tomie dePaola
Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Illustration from Strega Nona’s Harvest The prolific picture book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola was born on September 15 I have recently fallen in love with Strega Nona, and I decided that I’d create a series to further peoples’ understanding of the manificence of that set of books. Before…