The first ingredient of any picture book is a story. After we find our stories, we writers need to polish them a bit–but the effort begins with a story. I am an advocate of looking within for our stories–at looking at the memories from our pasts. I have recently studied the massive library of Tomie…
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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…