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Juvenile Fiction - General

Product Description Readers will enjoy this series of chapter books based on the young life of author, Tomie dePaola. Memorable moments from the Tomie's early years fill the pages of each book which make great read-alouds.

Young Tomie receives a diary for Christmas and records all his adventures over the next year: sledding on his Junior Flexible Flyer, the big dance recital, a summer visit to an amusement park, the start of second grade, and real art lessons. But one Sunday in December, the dePaolas turn on the radio to learn that Pearl Harbor has been attacked. Truly, things will never be the same. With the charming new feature of handwritten diary entries, the fifth book set at the Newbery Honor winning address...

Product Description 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 the war, and he has to say good-bye...

Following Here We All Are and the Newbery Honor-winning 26 Fairmount Avenue, Tomie dePaola gives us another slice of growing up in a memoir as warm, humorous, and charming as ever. Baby Maureen has only been home from the hospital a few weeks when she gets pneumonia, and the dePaola family is scared. Will she pull through?

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. Tomie has many adventures all his own, including eating chocolate with his Nana Upstairs, only to find out -- the hard way -- that they have eaten chocolate laxative. He tries to skip kindergarten when he finds out he won't learn to read until first grade. "I'll be back next year", he says. When Tomie goes to see Snow White, he creates another sensation. Tomie...

Biography: In addition to creating his own stories, Tomie dePaola is also well known for his retellings of folktales such as STREGA NONA: AN OLD TALE and FIN M'COUL: THE GIANT OF KNOCKMANY HILL, as well as his illustrations for the work of other authors such as Jean Fritz and Tony Johnston. dePaola has a B.F.A from Pratt Institute, a M.F.A. for the California College of Arts and Crafts, and a doctoral equivalency from Lone Mountain College. He entered a Benedictine monastery in Vermont for a short...

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 the war, and he has to say good-bye to his uncle as he...