Format: DVD, Merry Christmas from Milan - Caballe' & Bruson

Here Maya Angelou, dazzling entertainer, casts the spotlight on her show business career — a pageant of international scope. Maya, the woman, shares her sad, failed marriage to a white man, her early motherhood and achingly sensitive relationship with her young son, and her bone-deep, painful suspicion of the white world that welcomes her talent so dramatically ...

"In this, Tomie dePaola's fourth book in the Italian folktale tradition, it's Christmastime in the little town in Calabria. There is no time for Strega Nona's usual business of curing headaches, mixing love potions, and getting rid of warts. Instead, it's time for her annual feast for the whole town, complete with baccala, or Italian codfish stew, roasted peppers, and Christmas cookies." -- from the jacket