Tomie DePaola
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Tomie keeps hearing the phrase, ?For the duration.? Gas is being rationed ?for the duration.? The Fourth of July fireworks will be the last show ?for the duration.? So many things will be different as long as the war goes on, but much of Tomie?s life goes on as usual. He?s excited about starring in a dance recital, taking the bus around town all by himself, and having his first Communion. But Tomie is also still getting over his cousin?s death in...
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3 hrs. 57 mins.
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Well-loved author Tomie dePaola brings his childhood memories to audio in this collection of the first four books from his 26 Fairmount Avenue series.
26 Fairmount Avenue
Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938, just as a hurricane hits town, starting off a busy, crazy year.
Here We All Are
Tomie takes us back into his childhood...
3 hrs. 57 mins.
2 cassettes
Well-loved author Tomie dePaola brings his childhood memories to audio in this collection of the first four books from his 26 Fairmount Avenue series.
26 Fairmount Avenue
Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938, just as a hurricane hits town, starting off a busy, crazy year.
Here We All Are
Tomie takes us back into his childhood...
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Pass they syryup, please! Missing ingredients and michievous pets create one funny complication after another for a little old lady determined to make pancakes for breakfast.
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"When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works."
6) Strega Nona
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Featuring Tomie dePaola retelling his classic story against a charming musical score!
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 ever-full pasta pot is especially intriguing to hungry Big Anthony....
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Lucinda is unhappy because she has ruined the blanket that was intended for use in a Christmas procession. In Mexico, the poinsettia is called flor de la Nochebuenao flower ofthe Holy Night. At Christmastime, the flower blooms and flourishes, the quite exquisitered stars lighting up the countryside. A Mexican legend tells how the poinsettia came to be, through a little girl's unselfishgift to the Christ Child. Tomie dePaola has embraced the legend...
11) Quiet
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While observing the busy world around them, two children and their grandfather take a moment to appreciate being quiet and still.
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"Now available in sturdy board-book format, this edition is ideal for easter baskets. Illustrated with Tomie's signature soft lines and gentle colors, a young boy awakens with the dawn, opens his eyes and looks closely at his world. He admires all that surrounds him, large and small, from the radiant sun to a tiny, but exquisite, ladybug"--Publisher
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After the death of her mother and father, Adelita is badly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters until she finds her own true love at a grand fiesta.
16) The art lesson
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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 much more regimented.