Product Description

Un cuento tradicional que enseña a los niños lo que le pasó a Antonio por ser envidioso y no obedecer a la Abuela Hechicera...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23352 in Books
• Published on: 1999
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

Review
The New York Times Book Review "De Paola's illustrations aptly capture the whimsy of this ancient tale... simple line drawings clearly reveal the agony and ecstasy of pasta power, the muted colors create just the right ambiance for a Medieval village."

Card catalog description
When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.

About the Author
Tomie dePaola is one of the most popular children's book illustrators of our time. His humor, insight, and gentle art delight all readers. He has written and illustrated a number of books for Simon & Schuster. Some of the most popular of these, in addition to Strega Nona, are Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup, Andy; That's My Name, and Charlie Needs a Cloak.

A native of Meriden, Connecticut, Mr. dePaola studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He now makes his home in New Hampshire.

Customer Reviews

A classic book
This is a very basic morality story - Big Anthony (who never listens) was told Not To Touch The Pasta Pot, but when he had a chance he went right for it! Alas, he hadn't paid attention and so neglected to properly learn how to turn the pasta pot *off* - with predictable results.

The image of Big Anthony eating his debt to the village is priceless :)

The best memory I have of reading to my son, years ago...
All of Tomie dePaolo's books are treasures, and this one is no exception! While in first grade my son Joshua was assigned this book and to make a shoe box diarama. It is the best memory I have about his childhood many years ago, as he is 21 years old now. This was "our" first Tomie dePaolo/Strega Nona book, and after we completed reading it we went to our local library and found all others written by dePaolo.

dePaolo's books are so creative and colorful, matched only by mischievious but innocent, captivating story-telling and magical intrigue that kept my son reading for hours. I would highly recommend Strega Nona and all other Tomie dePaolo books to all parents of pre-school and grade school aged children and grandchildren.

Strega Nona
I really liked reading this book. I chose to read this for a book report in my second grade class in Germany. What I liked best about it was that Strega Nona could sing a special song to her pasta pot and the pot would make pasta for her. It was funny when Big Anthony didn't see the part when Strega Nona had to blow three kisses to the pot for it to stop making pasta. When Big Anthony was trying to show everyone that he knew how to make the pasta pot make pasta, he didn't know that he had to blow three kisses. What a mess it made when the pasta pot kept making the pasta! He did not listen to his directions and his punishment was to eat all the pasta that the pot made! It taught me that I need to listen and follow directions all the time or something terrible or silly could happen to me.