For this author profile I decided to focus on Tomie Depaola since the read aloud video was on one of his books. Tomie Depaola is a well known children’s author who had been published for over forty years and not only writes but illustrates as well. All in all he has written and illustrated over 200 books in his time and is still giving us more. His works have been recognized with numerous awards including the Newbery Honor Award and the Caldecott Honor Award.
Probably his most famous book is titled Strega Nona, a book that he illustrated himself as well. It is about an elderly lady who always helps out the people of her village by doing things like curing headaches, getting rid of warts, and helping single ladies find husbands. She needs help doing some chores, so Big Anthony comes to help her do them. She warns him not to touch her magic pasta pot, but he doesn’t listen and whenever she is away he uses it to serve pasta to the community. He doesn’t know how to turn it off, so the whole town ends up getting flooded with pasta, and as a punishment he must eat all that pasta. It is a very cute book!
The website that I found is his official website and the URL is http://www.tomie.com. There is a biography about Tomie, his artwork, his stories, and information on being an artist. It’s very interesting and you should check it out!
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