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Strega Nona: An Original Tale by Tomie dePaola
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works in this classic Caldecott Honor book from Tomie dePaola. Strega Nona--Grandma Witch--is the source for potions, cures, magic, and comfort in her Calabrian town. Her magical everfu ...Show more
TALES OF THE BLACKBIRD by Tomie dePaola (Illustrator)
$16.00 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
In this elegant tale, Tomie dePaola imagines how the Days of the Blackbird in northern Italy came to be. Gemma and her father, the Duke of Gennaro, live in a house with a courtyard that fills with birds of all colors through the spring and summer. When the Duke falls ill at the end of summer, Gemma begs ...Show more
THE ART LESSON by DEPAOLA TOMIE
$14.00 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
For use in schools and libraries only. Having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, young Tommy is dismayed when he goes to school and finds the art lesson there to be much more regimented.
Things Will Never Be The Same by Depaola Tomie
$11.99 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: 26 Fairmount Avenue Ser.
Tomie has his own diary with a lock and a key&150now he can write down all his secrets and no one will be able to read them. All through the year, exciting things happen and Tomie writes about them in his diary. Sledding down the steep hill on his new Junior Flexible Flyer, being a pirate in the dan ...Show more
Why? The War Years by dePaola, Tomie
$9.95 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: 26 Fairmount Avenue Books (Paperback)
World War II is raging in Europe, and Tomie finds that life has changed in many ways. Now he has to wear an extra sweater to school because they are trying to conserve coal. Then tragedy brings the war home to the dePaola family, and all Tomie can do is ask Why?