Strega Nona Meets Her Match by Tomie dePaola

Recommended to fans of Strega Nona, and to picture-book readers looking for entertaining and heartwarming witchy fare. The story itself is engaging, and the artwork (as always with dePaola) appealing. Product Type All Product Types Books (105) Magazines & Periodicals Comics Sheet Music Art, Prints & Posters. This is the point in time where the first book, Strega Nona, picks up, making this a prequel of sorts. Strega Nona Meets Her Match by Tomie Depaola, Used (105 results). Strega Nona: Her Story opens with the birth of its eponymous heroine, and closes with the arrival of her new assistant, Big Anthony, once she is an elderly strega herself. She also learns the secret ingredient to her grandmother's pasta, and to every kind of magic: love.Īll fans of Strega Nona (in whose number I count myself) will enjoy learning a little bit more about how this wonderful witch came to practice magic in her small town in Calabria. Raised and educated by her Grandma Concetta, a celebrated strega (witch), Nona slowly learns all of the skills she needs to take her mentor's place.

The origin story of Tomie dePaola's celebrated 'Grandmother Witch' is explored in this engaging picture-book adventure, the sixth to feature Strega Nona and her doings. Strega Nona's reaction when shown this book was, 'Bravissimo, mio caro Tomie!' It's no surprise that award-winning author and artist Tomie dePaola was Strega Nona's choice as her biographer and portraitist, for he has put into books many stories that she has shared with him over the years, including Strega Nona (a Caldecott Honor Book), Strega Nona Meets Her Match, Strega Nona Takes a Vacation, Strega Nona's Harvest, Strega Nona's Gift, and Strega Nona Does It Again. It is the story of a most fascinating life that has influenced and delighted countless children and adults all over the world, and it all starts with the night Strega Nona was born, when the wind was blowing dark storm clouds across the hills. This is the beloved Strega Nona's own story, every detail just as she remembers it, from her childhood with Grandma Concetta, who trained young Nona and her best friend Amelia, to her early days in the little house on the hill and the happy moments when she met Big Anthony and Bambolona.

Strega Nona Meets Her Match by Tomie dePaola